Steve, In the current phase, Tripod is a research project entirely. Using data under a license that prohibits commercial use is not prohibitive now. The final product of the project is intended to be exploited commercially though - there are commercial partners on board as well - so we couldn't and wouldn't use this data when the product goes commercial. Right now, however, we are in need of good quality aerial / satellite imagery to be able to demonstrate that the concepts will work.
Take care, Martijn -- martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ Op 9 okt 2008, om 18:20 heeft Steve Chilton het volgende geschreven: > Martijn > > Is this "just" a research project? > I would have thought that if you ask for permission it is likely to be > granted - Ordnance Survey seem to be on board already, according to > www > page. > However, your project outcomes seem to suggest rather more than that, > and that may be the stumbling block. > > Cheers > STEVE > > Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow > Manager of e-Learning Academic Development > Centre for Learning and Quality Enhancement > Middlesex University > phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/ > chiltons.asp > > Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ > > SoC conference 2008: > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martijn van Exel > Sent: 09 October 2008 16:48 > To: Richard Fairhurst > Cc: OSM Talk > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ping OpenAerialMap > > Op 9 okt 2008, om 17:20 heeft Richard Fairhurst het volgende > geschreven: > >> Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >>> Christiano -- Thanks for that. My guess would be that using the WMS >>> in >>> an OAM-external environment would actually violate the >>> recommendation >>> to use the i-cubed dataset only within OAM. My take on it would be >>> that, as long as there's still uncertainty as to licensing, you >>> should >>> use the i-cubed data only within the OAM *website*. >>> >>> Does Potlatch show it, for example? >> >> It did at one stage but sadly hasn't done for a while. Concerns were >> expressed that some OAM content had been georeferenced by use of >> Google Maps. Ed may have just permitted this by means of his latest >> blog posting. ;) > > That would be very good news for Potlatch, wouldn't it? I guess OAM > provides better / more up-to-date imagery in some areas - and we can > easily add locally acquired imagery and use it in Potlatch > immediately. >> >> >> For the i-cubed stuff, though, I _thought_ (may be wrong) that it was >> just colour-corrected Landsat and I don't see how colour correction >> would give anyone rights over tracing. > > > Well, i-cubed seems to exploit this derivation of Landsat7 > commercially, so there must be something non-trivial about the post- > processing they do, I guess. > > Just to clarify - I want to use the data for the Tripod project > (http://tripod.shef.ac.uk/ > ) , which is about augmenting metadata in photos mainly based on > existing location data. In this particular part of the project, we > want to analyze the RGB histograms of the picture and compare them to > the local aerial imagery to determine land cover class (e.g. forest, > field, urban, beach). > In another part of the project, we might be using OSM data to > determine other features found in a photo (POI, streets, ...). > > Martijn > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
