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

[80n]

On 12/5/06, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


In this context who/what is OpenStreetMap?  Is it anyone who is registered
with OSM?  And who owns what rights to the derived works - is it each
individual or is it OSM?

80n


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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