On 28/07/15 17:36, Karl Zinglersen wrote:
[...]
The coast line is basically a smoothened raster to vector conversion
in GDAL using a land/sea mask from a US research project named GIMP -
Greenland Ice Mapping Project - led by Dr. Ian Howat from Byrd Polar
Research Center at Ohio State University. The original land/sea mask
raster is prepared from primarily Landsat7 ETM+ and Radarsat
classifications. The land/sea mask is provided from
http://bpcrc.osu.edu/gdg/data/icemask and can be used for any academic
purpose, including OSM as long as they are cited when used.
Citation from the principal investigator:
/From: Ian Howat <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: 22 March 2015 22:33
To: Karl Zinglersen
Subject: Re: GIMP Ocean & Ice Mask in Open Street Map
Karl,
Thanks for the information. GIMP and the SETSM DEM may be used for any
academic purpose
as long as they are cited when used in presentations/publications.
Ian/
/Data Citation://Howat, I.M., A. Negrete, B.E. Smith, 2014, The
Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) land classification and
surface elevation datasets, The Cryosphere, 8, 1509-1518,
doi:10.5194/tc-8-1509-2014
/
The academic restriction means this data seems to me to not be able to
be used in OSM. OSM data can be used for any purpose, not just academic
and OSM is certainly not an academic project. I believe you would need a
much more permissive licence before you can import the coastlines into OSM.
--
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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