[OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

Simone Cortesi simone at cortesi.com
Tue May 19 10:15:18 BST 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Peter Miller
<peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

> Sounds interesting. So possibly we can comply with the licensing
> regulations without any special actions by the user. Currently for the
> Gaza Strip we provide a URL 'in the clear where you get the URL on
> request and enter it into JOSM - no need to sign in to access it when
> you know the URL and no technical mechanism to stop it being mis-used
> - hence the person side of setting it up.

As far as I remember, one of the clauses was that we were not to
provide Gaza images in to the wild internet unless they were less than
10m resolution. This is why we ended up having a "private" WMS.

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-S




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