Unfortunately the yahoo imagery in Vancouver isn't good enough to see bike racks anyways :( The yahoo imagery at UBC is distorted also (wavy) on part of the campus.
Regardless, if we want to make a demo area at UBC with very high detail mapping, then I would like to help as I am a student out there as well. The orienteering club has done a great job of mapping the campus over the last few years (this is the map from a while ago, now the entire campus is mapped: http://www.orienteeringbc.ca/gvoc/maps/files/UBC.gif) Unfortunately they do trace imagery so it isn't suitable for importing I think. Russell On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Corey Burger <corey.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, James Ewen <ve6...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Corey Burger <corey.bur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Bicycle racks would certainly be a welcome addition. I look at the >>> number around UVic and shudder. >>> >>> However, who holds copyright on the data? They need to sign off on >>> importing it into OSM if it isn't licensed under fairly liberal terms. >>> If you don't know then it is likely all rights reserved. Plant Ops may >>> not have the ability to do this. Likely you are going to need to clear >>> it through Legal, which can add time and headaches. >> >> So this brings up a question for me... >> >> If Gregory were to wander around the campus, and mark the bike racks >> on his GPS, and upload that to OSM, it would be completely kosher. >> >> What if Gregory were to plan his outing to collect information by >> referencing the copyright information in the campus map. Would that >> make his information a derivative work? I would think not. > > If you are using the map to navigate, I think there is a pretty strong > argument for deriviativeness. Better to simply wander around and find > them in a very systematic way. > >> >> What if Gregory were to reference the location of the bike racks on >> the campus map, and then use the Yahoo Map images to locate the bike >> racks, and mark them on OSM. Would that now be a derivative work? This >> I don't know... > > Yes, this definitely would be, because there would be no actual ground > truthing. > > Corey > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Russell _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
