[OSM-talk] Aerial photographs (5cm per pixel) is now available from Dortmund

[John Smith]

On 22 March 2010 17:30, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 07:59:18PM +0100, osm-dortmund dortmund wrote:
>> As of now, the high-resolution aerial photographs of the Dortmund company
>> Aerowest http://www.aerowest.de for the area of the city of Dortmund are
>> available. For a pilot project which has Aerowest GmbH orthophotos from the
>> year 2009 provided with a ground resolution of 5 cm per pixel are available
>> for unlimited use until 30.06.2010.
>
> Just to clarify, because the word "contactor" is a bit unclear here: The German
> non-profit FOSSGIS e.V. signed the agreement with Aerowest on behalf of the OSM
> community, because Aerowest required some legal entity to do that. FOSSGIS also
> host the images on one of its servers.

I was also curious as why it was only unlimited for 3 months, limited
access after 3 months?