My last reply tonight, I have to go but:
On 4 Mar 2009, at 17:41, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> SteveC wrote:
>> Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've
>> asked multiple lawyers about this personally.
>
> There is a popular project in Switzerland called openaddresses.ch.
> What they do is they display Google Aerial imagery and ask
> contributors to identify individual houses and assign house numbers.
> The typical OA contributor actually walks along the road much like
> an OSM mapper does, and notes down house numbers, but the
> coordinates are later derived - manually and individually by the
> person who walked the street - from the aerial image.
>
> We have until now been reluctant to import OA data because many
> people in OSM felt that these might be "tainted", although OA does
> not see it this way and would happily make their data available.
>
> Do you think we could, cautiously, go ahead and evaluate a possible
> import of their data in the light of what you've written above? They
> have already collected around 150k addresses.
I said 'individual' coordinates... collections are another matter! :-)
You could make a 'collection' of all the places streets cross each
other and rebuild the street network from that, which is clearly
derived.
Another one for a lawyer... or see my post to geowanking from a while
ago let me find it...
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-general/2008-November/000030.html
see the paragraph that begins "No what would be really cool"
Thoughts?
Best
Steve
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