[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Geotagged Flickr photos]

Jean-Guilhem Cailton jgc at arkemie.com
Fri Jan 22 02:00:29 GMT 2010


Shun N. Watanabe a e'crit:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com> wrote:
>   
>> I was disappointed that flickr was missing exactly what you provide. This is
>> yet a another example of what Talbot said, that "OSM is working wonderfully
>> as a clearinghouse".
>>     
>
> Don't say flickr as bad. Flickr doesn't have any copyright for all
> photos nor the map. It doesn't do nothing. Without noticing that
> flickr uses OSM in Haiti, I could not decide to read Flickr's photos.
> I noticed many photos of the earthquake on picasaweb but I cannot
> decide to import them because of the google maps copyright.
>
>   
>> (For the time being, there seem to be only photos in Port-au-Prince center,
>> right ?)
>>     
>
> No. They are searched by
> 30. bbox=-72.4794,18.477248,-72.178717,18.68922
> 31. tags/earthquake,haiti
> 32. user "carelp" (He is one of victims of the earthquake)
> Those searching conditions are listed on http://mappin.hp2.jp/rsslist.html
>
> You can add more condition at http://mappin.hp2.jp/registration.php
> How to write is,
> flickr:bbox/minlon,minlat,maxlon,maxlat
> flickr:tags/tag1,tag2,tag3  (and condition)
> flickr:USERID/
>
> If you know other geotagged sources allowing us to use and they
> provide the list of photos by RSS, atom feed or kml, you can added URL
> of the feed to it.
>
> MapPIN'on OSM reads those feeds everyday.
>
>   
>> I think it would be great if it where in the wiki.
>>     
> Anyone can write anything about the MapPIN'on OSM.
> The website is GPLed, the map is CC-BY-SA.
> MapPIN'on OSM blog's articles are licensed by CC-BY.
> Copy them as you like.
> But DON'T copy photos on it without checking their license.
> They are copyrighted by each authors.
> I just think drawing on a map some features taken in a photo doesn't
> mean copying the photo, so it is not restricted by copyright law.
>
>   
>> Something that would be
>> sexy for journalists (I would like to be able to raise the awareness about
>> OSM, that appears as the "Wikipedia for Maps" to me.)
>>     
>
> I am not interested in this. Rather than it, I would like to save Haiti people.
>
>  Shun N. Watanabe
>
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More public awareness would mean more people to help here...
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