Darafei Praliaskouski via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> writes: > This is okay. You still have the access to the reality to check if the edit > matches the reality. > > The core reason why companies can't share the imagery is that satellite > imagery providers often put a seat license on the imagery, with "publicly > available" costing ten times as much as "this specific person will extract > the features" (they can't sell it anymore after that, and other times' > images in the area too). The best you can ask for is the scene number and > provider name to buy the same image yourself, and there's also no > requirement to know it. > > (If an organization has an image and does have the license to share it and > open it up, get it uploaded on OpenAerialMap if not maintaining your own > imagery collection).
But then the company doing the editing should document which company's imagery and which revision year they are using. Things should be as transparent as possible, and this doesn't feel that way.
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