On 10 Apr 2009, at 09:13, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > Peter Miller <peter.miller <at> itoworld.com> writes: > >> Looks interesting .... but..... (there is unfortunately often a but) >> >> A brief review of the license terms. The definition of Derived Work >> is good, > unless a derived map is a 'Digital Terrain Model' which we would > need to check > with them. >> >> >> >> “DERIVATIVE WORKS”: means any derivative product or information >> developed by > the END-USER from the PRODUCT, >> >> which does not contain any imagery data from the PRODUCT and is >> irreversible > and uncoupled from the source imagery >> data of the PRODUCT. Notwithstanding the foregoing, by express >> exception, any > Digital Elevation Model or Digital >> Terrain Model (in any form whatsoever, i.e. database for instance) >> derived > from a PRODUCT shall never be considered >> as DERIVATIVE WORKS. >> >> >> This clause is good, except for the bit about Canada which breaks >> it for use > in OSM! It might be worth probing them on this term to see if they > could vary it. >> > > What I remember about using SPOT images, all what we digitized on > top of the > imagery was our own data and we could do whatever with it. However > the imagery > itself was protected. It is easy to understand that for that cheap > price SPOT > images must be selled several times. Therefore it is not sure that > it would be > OK to put satellite scenes on a server from where any of the 100000 > OSM mappers > could use them because it would be too simple to copy also the > imagery.
Very true. On the wiki page I point out that "We are not able to give general public access to the aerial photography in most cases and the URL will normally be handed out on request to a group of people who will do the work. " As such we are providing access details to be a small number of 'contractors' as we have done for Gaza. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals#How_do_people_access_the_data Regards, Peter > No > problems if some individual or a small group makes a contract, > digitizes all > what they can see from the images in their own closed factory and > uploads the > results into OSM database. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
