[OSM-talk] People's Map

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> No problems if some individual or a small group makes a contract, digitizes all
> what they can see from the images in their own closed factory and uploads the
> results into OSM database.

This is better than nothing but should always be our last resort. During 
a recently completed aerial imagery digitizing project in Germany we 
attracted hundreds of "guest mappers" from all over the country who 
spent an hour or two just to be part of it. These would never have gone 
through the trouble of registering first to be part of the small elite 
group who have access. - Small elite groups are totally un-OSM.

Of course our imagery provider was concerned about his images leaking 
into the world at large, too; we ended up putting rather ugly big red 
watermarks (cannot really call them watermarks any more) across the 
images which didn't hurt our purpose but made them practically unusable 
for anyone else.

Bye
Frederik