Thanks for the links Andy. Marc is correct, I meant we can only use the Imagery layer, not any of ESRI's other basemaps like their Streets basemap, etc.
On 5 June 2018 at 02:23, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/18 20:12, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > On 3 June 2018 at 21:48, Dion Moult <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've started using OSM more and more and I find it frustrating that many >> house addresses are not available in OSM. I would like to help by tracing >> many houses using ESRI as a base map (feel free to audit my history on OSM >> under the name "Moult"). I would also like to add address information >> (addr:housenumber and addr:street) to these ways however I don't think that >> we are meant to be copying from Google maps. Is there another map source >> that has addresses that we can use? Perhaps some form of government >> cadastre map? Is that allowed? >> > > What do you mean by "ESRI as a base map" do you mean the "ESRI World > Imagery" available in ID and JOSM? ESRI's map layers are not allowed, > just like Google Maps or Google Street View which must not be used as we > don't have the copyright permissions to use these. > > > As a bit of background, see https://github.com/Esri/ > arcgis-osm-editor/issues/104 and https://www.esri.com/arcgis- > blog/products/arcgis-hub/constituent-engagement/esri-world-imagery-in- > openstreetmap/?rmedium=redirect&rsource=blogs.esri. > com%2Fesri%2Farcgis%2F2017%2F08%2F24%2Fworld-imagery-in-osm . I'm not a > lawyer, but that github issue has contributions both from ESRI and members > of OSMF's LWG, so I'd definitely read it. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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