Christoph, On 04/25/2016 06:46 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > You are not seriously suggesting that paying a proprietary data vendor > for a likely restrictive license to use some imagery for mapping in OSM > is in support of the idea of open data?
I, too, am wary of this initiative because of the underlying idea that working without aerial imagery is a waste of time. IMHO the non-availability of aerial imagery primarily means that there will be less armchair mapping which I consider a good thing (but I know that my position on that is a minority position among humanitarian mappers). Having said that, paying for propietary imagery isn't without precedent in OSM, see for example http://wiki.openstreetmap.org and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WissensWert/40_-_Luftbilder_f%C3%BCr_OpenStreetMap Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
