Licensing is a problem area and one that the list is helpful on. Cheerio John
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 11:57, Angela Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > In my personal opinion, I would assume items being imported in an > individual fashion with human input are subject to the data license > policies of OSM, but are not subject to the community imports approval > process, as there's no risk mitigation to be concerned with. If something > you want to add has a questionably compatible license, I would assume that > would require license verification at a minimum, but this is a gray area in > the current OSM policies, and should be specifically noted and revised in > the import guidelines. > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:52 AM, John Whelan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > By this definition any import of data that has as part of its process each > item added that the item is inspected visually using the todo list is not > an import. > > There are a lot of building outlines that are being brought in in this way > currently. Are they exempt from the import guidelines? > > Thanks John > > Rory McCann wrote on 2019-02-14 10:09 AM: > > IMO a key feature of "is this an import or not?" is whether a mapper looks > at each (new) object individually. If yes, then it's not an import. Opening > a .osm file in JOSM, running the validator and then pressing upload is not > looking at each feature individually, ie an import. Doing the above, but > you use JOSM's todo plugin to (actually) look at each object, makes it not > an import. > > "Has this piece of data been specifically checked by an OSMer?". > > On 12/02/2019 18:39, Mike N wrote: > > > Checking in - Is the process of using Microsoft Buildings which are > occasionally distorted by shadows and thus all have to be manually > inspected still treated as an import, or would the process be classified as > a Mapathon? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > -- > > Sent from Postbox > <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campaign=reach> > > >
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