[OSM-talk] yahoo sat images and coastal outlines (newb q's)

[Mikel Maron]

Hi Murray,

Yahoo and their partners retain copyright over the images, and we must display those.

OpenStreetMap has been given permission to derive data from those images, 
and OSM is given rights over those derived works.

The imagery over Edinburgh should be good enough for tracing. Metadata still
needs collecting .. the street names and road restrictions/types. 

There's been discussion on the list of using the imagery more as a guide .. so that
pre-acquisition, tracings are made, and printed out. Then on the streets, use GPS
to quickly verify and fill in any gaps, make corrections.

-Mikel

----- Original Message ----
From: Minty <mintywalker at gmail.com>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 12:40:01 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] yahoo sat images and coastal outlines (newb q's)

Just started doing some gps plotting, tracing & labelling for
Edinburgh:)  Some questions arose, which I couldn't find an answer for
and we are most curious about:

re: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=120

I assume the sat images are copyright?  So why is it okay to trace
from them?  Is there anything you can point me at that discusses the
issues for a newbie related to "Theres code in there which updates the
relevant image copyrights which we must respect, along of course with
Yahoos.".

Does this mean I don't need to bother taking my GPS around Edinburgh?
The sat images look good enough for tracing.

Also - where did the copyright free coastal outlines come from for the
UK?  Was this out of copyright data, or some US/NASA based data
source, or something else entirely?

Thanks,
Murray.

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