Hi Martin, Similarly, our project might not be around forever ... once single-use plastic is a thing of the past :)
Which is why we seek to store user contributed images on Wikimedia Commons (if they will accept them) rather than on our server. https://europeanwaterproject.org/photos/index.html Best regards, Stuart On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 11:27, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am Mo., 8. Juni 2020 um 10:48 Uhr schrieb European Water Project < > europeanwaterproj...@gmail.com>: > >> Dear Martin, >> >> For-profit companies have different levels of openness, I think it would >> be a mistake to put them all in the same bucket. >> >> While all their data and images are not open, Mapillary shares many >> geolocalized images through creative commons licensing - in a more open >> manner than many non-profit companies and local municipalities. >> > > > I might have not been clear with "If mapillary doesn’t allow for > downloading the images (only thumbnails/previews) we should not link to > it.", what I meant was that I would not encourage people to build on > systems that aren't open (it didn't mean: go and remove them). I would also > not object to people doing it nonetheless (if the links are still useful > because you can get "something" from them), but we should be aware that we > are building on sand here. The owner of the external db (here mapillary) > can choose at any time to deny access to its data, or the company may go > bancrupt or close its business for other reasons and we might have put a > lot of effort into this in vain. Open projects allow for forking, while > proprietary systems usually don't, so that the usefulness of related tags > is deeply linked to the goodwill and operational situation of the company. > > > >> Hopefully a significant level of data openness will continue to be part >> of Mapillary's business model. >> >> > > yes, we can just hope for it. Not more. > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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