>From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to create derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery.
On Dec 22, 2016 7:29 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-12-22 02:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44545610#map=16/45.4064/-75.7947 > > … > > But maybe I'm overreacting and I'm prepared to let the matter rest if > > the Canadian community finds that normal. > > I don't find that normal, and I'm sorry you had to deal with it. OSM > must be a welcoming and cooperative community, and some of the comments > in that exchange were out of line. OSM is not a race to see who can add > the most data. > > I have approached the GIS at Carleton team to ask about the licence for > their air photos. I can neither access their images as a slippy map nor > find a data licence text. The statement that “City of Ottawa Air Photos > are available for direct download for Carleton University students, > faculty and staff ONLY” (emphasis theirs) makes me concerned that the > data is under a restricted academic licence. > > Until Carleton can confirm that the data is good to use, I'd like to > request that Jamie and any others refrain from using it as a data > source. It's like the Ottawa building import: the OSM community can't > use data until its source and licence is verifiable by everyone. > > cheers, > Stewart > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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