[OSM-talk] People's Map

[Peter Miller]

On 10 Apr 2009, at 09:13, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:

> Peter Miller <peter.miller <at> itoworld.com> writes:
>
>> Looks interesting .... but..... (there is unfortunately often a but)
>>
>> A brief review of the license terms. The definition of Derived Work  
>> is good,
> unless a derived map is a 'Digital Terrain Model' which we would  
> need to check
> with them.
>>
>>
>>
>> “DERIVATIVE WORKS”: means any derivative product or information  
>> developed by
> the END-USER from the PRODUCT,
>>
>> which does not contain any imagery data from the PRODUCT and is  
>> irreversible
> and uncoupled from the source imagery
>> data of the PRODUCT. Notwithstanding the foregoing, by express  
>> exception, any
> Digital Elevation Model or Digital
>> Terrain Model (in any form whatsoever, i.e. database for instance)  
>> derived
> from a PRODUCT shall never be considered
>> as DERIVATIVE WORKS.
>>
>>
>> This clause is good, except for the bit about Canada which breaks  
>> it for use
> in OSM! It might be worth probing them on this term to see if they  
> could vary it.
>>
>
> What I remember about using SPOT images, all what we digitized on  
> top of the
> imagery was our own data and we could do whatever with it.  However  
> the imagery
> itself was protected.  It is easy to understand that for that cheap  
> price SPOT
> images must be selled several times.  Therefore it is not sure that  
> it would be
> OK to put satellite scenes on a server from where any of the 100000  
> OSM mappers
> could use them because it would be too simple to copy also the  
> imagery.

Very true. On the wiki page I point out that  "We are not able to give  
general public access to the aerial photography in most cases and the  
URL will normally be handed out on request to a group of people who  
will do the work. " As such we are providing access details to be a  
small number of 'contractors' as we have done for Gaza.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals#How_do_people_access_the_data


Regards,



Peter


> 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.
>
>
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