On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Hi All,
This has come up before. HOT is part of a pilot for the initiative
Imagery to the Crowd (1). Representatives of HOT and the US
Government met multiple times in all day meetings to discuss what the
NextView license
Nice idea, but OSM doesn't operate like that. If someone imports data, they
don't usually ask for the legal opinion of the OSMF or invite an OSMF
representative to a meeting. They just make sure the negotiated terms conforms
to the understanding of the ODbL, etc, invite community input, and
Hi,
i think Richard points to the right direction.
Richard Weait writes:
Were any potential data donor, or imagery donor in this case, able to
state, I grant use of {dataset} to OpenStreetMap contributors for use
under the terms of the OpenStreetMap License and Contributor Terms,
well that
Hello,
I've recently posted this on the forum
(http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22354). Do you have
any ideas?
The post in the forum says:
The Brazilian community is growing and now we are facing a problem.
Some contributors may be importing copyrighted data. While we are
It would be interesting to know what kind of information is contained in
TrackSource, I could imagine a potential way forward based on the ago
old adage (well it is a couple of seconds old :-)):
geometry is cheap, meta expensive
If there is meta data (street names, other similar information)
Interesting logic. Can we be sure about it?
In fact, some mappers have argued that, even though they traced over
Google's imagery, street names and POIs were surveyed (because
Google's are often misplaced, misspelled, missing or just plain
wrong), and this is precisely the information we
Hi All,
I think that lawyers from the provider of the license interpreting the
license as okay for use in OSM is no issue. Josh Campbell above is the
lead for the project. Currently this project is up for an award, it is
not putting the database at risk.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Stephan
