On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really glad that Bryan brought this up and that you responded asking for > less technical instructions. I think that finding local imagery sources like > this is a really great use of people's time and is something that can be > made really approachable for non-technical folks. We're working on exactly > this for OpenAddresses right now – currently we ask that people file GitHub > pull requests to add data sources and want to make it so that anyone with > knowledge of an address source can easily submit data. Another, less techincal (or, I should say, less software-y) concern that I have is that presenting an orthophoto layer in iD or JOSM is quite different from doing an import; rather than pouring data into our own database and stamping 'ODBL' on it, it's making the photography available for people to trace over, use to tidy GPS tracks, use to verify the existence of features, and so on - and it's just this sort of difference that the lawyers really *care* about. For this reason, none of the sample clearance requests that I've found (for example, on the Wiki) really fit this use of data. I'm sure that some sort of clearance was obtained to use Bing and DigitalGlobe imagery in this fashion, and probably for other states' orthophotos as well. (I know that the Federal ones are 'born in the public domain' as US Government Works.) There has to be some sort of contact on our legal team who can address concerns around a request to use orthophotos, and there has to be some history about how the initial requests were phrased and what concerns other data providers had. Knowing some of that context would really help in drafting the initial letter to NYSGIS. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
