[OSM-talk] ping OpenAerialMap

[Martijn van Exel]

Steve,

In the current phase, Tripod is a research project entirely. Using  
data under a license that prohibits commercial use is not prohibitive  
now. The final product of the project is intended to be exploited  
commercially though - there are commercial partners on board as well -  
so we couldn't and wouldn't use this data when the product goes  
commercial. Right now, however, we are in need of good quality  
aerial / satellite imagery to be able to demonstrate that the concepts  
will work.

Take care,
Martijn
-- 
martijn van exel -+- mvexel at gmail.com -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/

Op 9 okt 2008, om 18:20 heeft Steve Chilton het volgende geschreven:

> Martijn
>
> Is this "just" a research project?
> I would have thought that if you ask for permission it is likely to be
> granted - Ordnance Survey seem to be on board already, according to  
> www
> page.
> However, your project outcomes seem to suggest rather more than that,
> and that may be the stumbling block.
>
> Cheers
> STEVE
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Martijn van Exel
> Sent: 09 October 2008 16:48
> To: Richard Fairhurst
> Cc: OSM Talk
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ping OpenAerialMap
>
> Op 9 okt 2008, om 17:20 heeft Richard Fairhurst het volgende  
> geschreven:
>
>> Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>>> Christiano -- Thanks for that. My guess would be that using the WMS
>>> in
>>> an OAM-external environment would actually violate the  
>>> recommendation
>>> to use the i-cubed dataset only within OAM. My take on it would be
>>> that, as long as there's still uncertainty as to licensing, you
>>> should
>>> use the i-cubed data only within the OAM *website*.
>>>
>>> Does Potlatch show it, for example?
>>
>> It did at one stage but sadly hasn't done for a while. Concerns were
>> expressed that some OAM content had been georeferenced by use of
>> Google Maps. Ed may have just permitted this by means of his latest
>> blog posting. ;)
>
> That would be very good news for Potlatch, wouldn't it? I guess OAM
> provides better / more up-to-date imagery in some areas - and we can
> easily add locally acquired imagery and use it in Potlatch  
> immediately.
>>
>>
>> For the i-cubed stuff, though, I _thought_ (may be wrong) that it was
>> just colour-corrected Landsat and I don't see how colour correction
>> would give anyone rights over tracing.
>
>
> Well, i-cubed seems to exploit this derivation of Landsat7
> commercially, so there must be something non-trivial about the post-
> processing they do, I guess.
>
> Just to clarify - I want to use the data for the Tripod project
> (http://tripod.shef.ac.uk/
> ) , which is about augmenting metadata in photos mainly based on
> existing location data. In this particular part of the project, we
> want to analyze the RGB histograms of the picture and compare them to
> the local aerial imagery to determine land cover class (e.g. forest,
> field, urban, beach).
> In another part of the project, we might be using OSM data to
> determine other features found in a photo (POI, streets, ...).
>
> Martijn
>
>
>
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