IANAL, but this tickles my "derivative work" sensor a little. How would this be any different than using Google, or another copyrighted imagery source? If a road, intersection, or feature is moved in OSM as a result of looking at its position in the imagery, is that not deriving from the imagery?


At 2011-03-03 16:43, PJ Houser wrote:
The aerials are currently for jurisdictional use only. There does seem to be a push for making data public - maybe someday they will be available. I don't know.

We are using the aerials to determine the accuracy of OSM and RLIS, so we just use it as a background layer. In some cases, OSM is more accurate than RLIS. The aerials help us send feedback to RLIS and determine where a change in OSM is justified.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Alan Mintz <[email protected]> wrote:
At 2011-02-10 18:28, PJ Houser wrote:

           6 inch aerial imagery flown Fall 2010


Wow - that's among the highest-quality and most recent imagery available anywhere. It should result in very accurate alignment, as long as it's been well referenced/ortho'd. Would it be possible to make it available for use by other OSM users?

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Alan Mintz <[email protected]>

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