[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <000e01c81bdd$05b94750$0300a8c0 at peter>
>         Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can someone explain why we can't include this height data in OSM (with
>> acknowledgement as requested)? I can't see anything that says that they do
>> claim copyright and there is this statement from the Guidelines that seems
>> to say you can used it for whatever (but needless to say IANAL)  
> 
> I think it's more a technical issue than a legal issue - how
> exactly would you propose to include it? Contour lines as ways?
> 
> Ignoring the question of the massive size of the data, and the
> storage we would need, I imagine it would make editing very hard
> if the map was covered in contour lines crossing everything else.
> 
> It is such a clearly defined data set, and so different to the
> rest of our data, that I think it makes more sense to keep it
> separate - develop tools to work with the two together by all
> means but I don't see any need to import it wholesale.
> 
> Tom
> 


how about having it as an extra transparent layer to add on top of the map ?