Simon Biber wrote: > Who was it prompted by? Did NearMap themselves request it?
I believe John Smith initially suggested it to NearMap. Ben Last at NearMap then e-mailed me asking that I remove the imagery. This was a month or so ago, but I've been busy at work. AIUI NearMap removed the Potlatch link from their own site a while back. > I don't see why should NearMap be blocked for users who have not accepted > the new contributor terms. I'd be happy to accept a well-coded patch to amf_controller, to query a user's contributor terms status; and to Potlatch (both source and compiled version) to act on this status and modify the menu/presets accordingly. Obviously I can't speak for any of the site admins as to whether such a patch would be deployed. It would be a fair amount of work, and personally I'd rather spend my own time improving Potlatch 2 than on the old Potlatch 1 codebase, which is why I've not done it. In addition I feel very strongly that copyright on imagery does not, and should not, 'transfer' to tracings from that imagery (http://www.systemeD.net/blog/?p=100). That's why, for example, I expressly didn't restrict tracing from the UK New Popular Edition maps which I spent a lot of time and money scanning and rectifying. That's my own personal belief, not necessarily shared by anyone else, and indeed NearMap disagree - which is fine and absolutely their prerogative. I'm not going to spend a whole load of time making a change which is against my own beliefs, but OSM is a collaborative project, so I wouldn't object if someone else were to do so. cheers Richard (Potlatch 1 developer) -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/NearMap-tp5534325p5534629.html Sent from the Australia mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
