[OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/5/18 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>:
>
> On 18 May 2009, at 11:48, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>  From memory, all that the license requires is that it isn't made
> generally available as a free on-line internet resource and that it is
> used for the agreed purpose by known people.
>
> We would need to take advice on it, but I see no reason why mappers
> can't sign-up to use the photography on-line and agree to use it only
> for this purpose.

They can obviously, but if they don't have to, more work will get done.

The optimal source would let us license the imagery under the same
terms as the maps (e.g. the ODbL) so it could be presented on both
openaerialmap.org and maybe we could do the "hybrid map" trick like
some of the maps.<name>.com websites.  And this TopSat, considering
it's a research project, might just be worth asking for such a
permission.

Cheers