[OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

[Peter Miller]

On 12 Jun 2009, at 02:55, Russ Nelson wrote:

> It's pretty dead.  Combination of questionable copyright over the base
> data plus a lack of resources to really do it right.

The two issues with copyright seem to be copyright of the original  
image (which should be possible to establish) and the contamination  
during the rectification (which needs strong community guidelines and  
monitoring). What would one need to do to sort out that issue? Start  
again, or just weed out some data?

What resources would be required to 'do it right'? Is it worth doing  
that? Are there a group of people who want to do so?

Fyi, ITO purchased a domain called openaerial.org some time back for  
this purpose (before openaerialmap was started). If the OpenStreetMap  
community would like to use it we would be happy to transfer it to the  
foundation at no charge.


Regards,


Peter Miller
ITO World Ltd

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> On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
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>> I have trouble accessing openaerialmap.org site, is it just me or is
>> this service having some issues?
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