Hi, SteveC wrote: > Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've asked > multiple lawyers about this personally.
There is a popular project in Switzerland called openaddresses.ch. What they do is they display Google Aerial imagery and ask contributors to identify individual houses and assign house numbers. The typical OA contributor actually walks along the road much like an OSM mapper does, and notes down house numbers, but the coordinates are later derived - manually and individually by the person who walked the street - from the aerial image. We have until now been reluctant to import OA data because many people in OSM felt that these might be "tainted", although OA does not see it this way and would happily make their data available. Do you think we could, cautiously, go ahead and evaluate a possible import of their data in the light of what you've written above? They have already collected around 150k addresses. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
