Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-14 Thread Russ Nelson
Jo writes: > If you post them on Fickr, they're already lost for the community. All my photos on Flickr, except for a tiny handful, are CC-By-SA. Not sure what you're talking about. -- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. |

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-14 Thread Jo
The main problem with Commons (at least for the pictures I took while mapping) is that there is no guarantee your pictures will be kept. For the good ones, there is no problem. For the 1000th picture of a bus stop and its surroundings, they will be nominated and removed. Personally I would go

[OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Russ Nelson
Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust to keep photos of features? Once I finish gathering my set of photos of NY railroad bridges, where should I upload them so that I can automagically add links to the photos to each OSM bridge=yes way? Flickr? Archive.org?

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Russ, Am 13.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Russ Nelson: > Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question: who do we trust to > keep photos of features? Once I finish gathering my set of photos of > NY railroad bridges, where should I upload them so that I can > automagically add links to the

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Jo
Commons on Wikipedia/Wikimedia? Mapillary? Upload them to 4 different services, to be sure? Spread the risk. Polyglot 2016-02-13 22:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Reichert : > Hi Russ, > > Am 13.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Russ Nelson: > > Here's a possibly silly, possibly serious question:

Re: [OSM-talk] who do we trust for photos?

2016-02-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > The trouble with any non-profit service is that if they cease to get > donations, they will be shut down. > This observation also applies to the OSM database as hosted by the OSMF. But we all still contribute to OSM anyway