[OSM-talk] Satellite imagery copyright

[Andy Robinson]

David Groom wrote:
>Sent: 24 November 2006 11:25 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Satellite imagery copyright
>
>I've been recently uploading data for the UK coastline obtained by running
>the
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Almien_coastlines_%28PGS%29
>coastline script.
>
>Unforturenately there is an section of the UK coastline for which the
>script
>produces no data, and I think this is probably due to the shapefile having
>no data, probably due to there being very heavy cloud cover over the
>affected area.
>
>I can't trace the coastline from the JOSM landsat plugin, as there is heavy
>cloud cover showing there as well, and the NPE maps dont cover that far
>north.
>
>The Landsat 4/5 imagery is available from
>https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl, and whilst not having the same
>resolution as the later Landsat images, has the advantage of being cloud
>free for the relevant area.
>
>I cant see any copyright info however from
>https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl, and so don't know if I can use it
>as a source from which to trace the coastline for input into OSM
>
>Does anyone know if the https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl images can
>be used as an OSM source?
>
>David
>

If this doesn't work out there may be IR or other wavelength spectroscopy
that is available that doesn't suffer from the cloud base issue and is free
to use.

Cheers

Andy

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