This is okay. You still have the access to the reality to check if the edit matches the reality.
The core reason why companies can't share the imagery is that satellite imagery providers often put a seat license on the imagery, with "publicly available" costing ten times as much as "this specific person will extract the features" (they can't sell it anymore after that, and other times' images in the area too). The best you can ask for is the scene number and provider name to buy the same image yourself, and there's also no requirement to know it. (If an organization has an image and does have the license to share it and open it up, get it uploaded on OpenAerialMap if not maintaining your own imagery collection). On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:02 AM Mike Thompson <miketh...@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. > > Thoughts? > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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