[OSM-talk] Custom Imagery

Alex Rollin alex.rollin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 05:17:21 BST 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I am looking into how to use custom imagery for tracing.
>>
>> Can anyone point me at a process, and how-to?
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>> I was looking at the Digital Globe site, thinking of buying some images.
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>> What would I do with them to load them into JOSM?  It appears there is no
>> "open background image and add to map" dialog.
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> Danger, Will Robinson! Would their license be compatible with OSM, since
> you're going to be deriving data from their imagery?
>
> I promise i will be sensitive to licensing.  Still new to all this, so,
this is a practical technical question.  Once I find more about buying
stuff, hints at that process welcome too, then I will share what I learn
about the licenses etc, too.

A
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