[OSM-talk] Applications systematically consuming Bing Aerial tiles

[Jochen Topf]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:58:46PM -0600, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Does anyone know of applications in the OSM ecosystem that systematically
> download large areas' worth of Bing Aerial tiles?
> The license[0] implies that this is not allowed because 1) you cannot
> 'copy, store, archive, or create a database of the content' (par.2) and 2)

The storage part is not true any more. Bing used OSM data to mask out military
areas in Germany, so the Bing images are now automatically CC-BY-SA. Any Bing
images you have downloaded you can do with it what you want. They haven't
updated their terms & conditions yet, but I am sure Steve is working on that.
It is a big company that moves slowly.

Of course that doesn't say anything about the service. Bing doesn't have to
give you access to those images. Thats a different issue and I can't say
anything about that.

Of course thats all for the old CC-BY-SA license. If I understand the new
license correctly the images don't have to be under CC-BY-SA, but they would
have to give us their updated geometries for the military areas. That would
be interesting, because in some places they are better than the ones we
have in OSM. But they did this based on the old license so thats all
hypothetical.

Jochen
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