[OSM-talk] spot imagery for osm tracing

Jeremy G jeremy.grx at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 15:51:20 BST 2010


Hi,

I'm the author of the blog post. Sorry Emilie if you were planning an
official announcement, I've posted right after reading the info on the OSM
Talk-fr, hope it's OK.

Once again congratulations to every person involved in this agreement, it's
a great progress for OpenStreetMap in general :)

Jeremy

2010/10/5 Jean-Francois (Jeff) Faudi <jeanfrancois.faudi at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I am talking on behalf of Spot Image. At this stage, we are only making a
> test over France. As soon as possible, we will try to evaluate the mutual
> benefits for Spot Image and OpenStreetMap in order to foster an extended
> collaboration.
>
> Here is the SPOtMaps page in English :
> http://www.spotimage.com/web/en/1285-spotmaps.php
>
> And I just want to correct the spelling for the source tag : source=Cnes /
> Spot Image
>
> Jeff.
>
> --
> Jean-Francois FAUDI, Spot Image Labs
> Web Site : http://www.spotimage.com | http://labs.spotimage.com/
>
>
> 2010/10/5 Vincent Pottier <vpottier at gmail.com>
>
>>  On 05/10/2010 15:11, Pieren wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> but it seems
>>> that SPOT is an aggregate of differently licensed data. So what
>>> applies to France doesn't for the rest of the world.
>>>
>>> But maybe someone else can correct me on that, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> SPOT is an imagery provider, so they can apply the licence they want on
>> their production. They decided to create a special one for this experimental
>> phase of  6 months. The special licence for OSM (in english) is here:
>> http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html
>>
>> SPOTmaps, the product (in french):
>> http://www.spotimage.com/web/2214-spotmaps-tableau.php
>>
>> As Emilie said, it's 2.5m resolution + 15m accuracy for France,
>> orthorecitified. It is normally sold 2€ per km2 but is free for France and
>> only for OpenStreetMap for the next 6 months, renewable. After this period
>> and depending on its success, geographic extensions will be evaluated by
>> SPOT.
>>
>> Pieren
>>
>> So people mapping using the SPOT imagery are invited to add the source
>> "CNET/SPOT image" on they data to help evaluating, to see the experience
>> reconducted, and maybe extended to other countries.
>> --
>> FrViPofm
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