[OSM-talk] [Spam] Re: Wikipedia & canvec/geobase import

[MP]

>> Hmm ... such link would be of very limited use, due to the "not
>> aggregate in a mapping or geographic application" clause. Isn't there
>> any similar service with less restrictive policies? If there is any,
>> we can perhaps start convincing authors in 3D warehouse to upload
>> their models also there :)
>
> I agree that it would be interesting to have a 3D warehouse with more
> generous licensing, however I also believe that there is a clear distinction
> between adding links to copyright material into a Work and adding the
> copyright material itself. We can create links to websites containing
> copyright material from within OSM and don't think twice about it because

For links to websites, most users want for the link to show up in
their browser of choice as preferred action (and then read whatever is
there), so that is OK. For links to models, the desired outcome may be
different. Some people may want to see/download the link in browser,
but many others wou;ld like to see it directly in the map.

> the legal right to create links to copyright work was established in the
> early days of the web and that is all I am proposing.
>
> It would however be against their terms to create a 3D city by combining the
> OSM data and the 3D warehouse data into a single model or 'experience' and
> that is why it would become interesting to have data in a separate 3D
> warehouse with share-alike terms.

If we link to such a model, in end it probably would end up being
displayed (and thus violating terms) in the app directly, as the app
will see the link, so it will maybe download and show the model, not
knowing anything about google's terms (person who put the link in
database won't breach terms, application programmed to display all
models won't breach the terms either, but end user who run the app on
the database will... in the end Google may be hunting end users of
whatever too will utilize the links).

While it seems a good idea at a glance, as andrzej zaborowski said, it
"may be misleading
(people loading the link somewhere might assume the model is
distributed under the same terms as the map data and not read the
sketchup license)".

So I think we either should look for some free repository (wikimedia
commons may be good, though they currently accept only images, video
and sound files) or create one ourselves.

As OSM plan some collaboration with wikipedia, maybe as part of it we
can negotiate possibility of uploading 3D models to wikimedia commons
and then using them/linking to them. This would solve our "free
repository" problem quite nicely.

Martin