[OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Matt Amos wrote:
> didn't you have to restrict that to a small number of signed-up
> mappers though? i would have thought that, hiring topsat rather than
> licensing the imagery, we wouldn't have to restrict imagery use to a
> small group of people.

With the Bavarian imagery that was "loaned" to us, we saw that the 
project attracted quite a few "casual mappers" who spent half a day just 
to be part of it but who would most likely not have signed up to 
participate in a limited access project. So if it *can* be avoided 
that's certainly useful.

Sometimes when the licensor requests that access be limited, one can 
talk them into accepting some heavy watermarking on the images instead, 
which makes them un-interesting for any application but tracing. They 
are more likely to allow such images out in the open.

Bye
Frederik