On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 20:45, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 06:56, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Maxar have generously donated some satellite imagery of bushfire affected > > areas and they explicitly allow tracing for OSM, > > > > > https://blog.maxar.com/open-data-program/2020/open-data-response-to-the-australian-wildfires > . > > There's nothing explicitly about OSM on that page and the licence is > stated (despite a claim of "open data") as "Creative Commons > Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licensing > allows for non-commercial use of the information..." > > Have I missed something? > Yeah so if you click through to the landing page https://www.digitalglobe.com/ecosystem/open-data/australia-wildfires and then click the License button and then scroll down to see the OpenStreetMap Exception. > In the licensing terms, DigitalGlobe has a stated exception for > OpenStreetMap. OSM is allowed to use imagery released under the Open Data > Program. Even though OSM enables commercial usage, OSM is a critical > platform for the disaster response community. Allowing usage of our imagery > in OSM will enable faster data access by local communities as well as > global relief efforts.
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