[OSM-talk] Use of "Proprietary" imagery to edit OSM

[Michael Collinson]

and note that Bing imagery is provided to us on the same basis - for use 
in OSM but not otherwise.

Mike

On 2022-10-27 00:08, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 2:59 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Concerning this changeset:
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/128035436
>
>     Changeset comment:
>
>     added missing roads according to proprietary aerial imagery
>
>     Editing organization's follow on comment:
>     "Proprietary" for Lyft meaning "provided to us for use in OSM but
>     not the general public"
>
>     Is this acceptable?  In my mind it is not as the whole community
>     should have access in order to verify and build on these edits.
>
> I look at it as if they were using local knowledge. For example, If I 
> walk downtown and take pictures of business doors to capture address, 
> name, and hours for use in updating OSM but don't upload those pics - 
> I consider that acceptable.
>
> For Lyft to make their imagery public they would have to insure that 
> nothing private, such as faces, license plates, etc. I'm sure they 
> don't want the added cost required make them public.
>
> Clifford
>
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