On 18 May 2009, at 11:48, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Amos wrote: >> didn't you have to restrict that to a small number of signed-up >> mappers though? i would have thought that, hiring topsat rather than >> licensing the imagery, we wouldn't have to restrict imagery use to a >> small group of people. > > With the Bavarian imagery that was "loaned" to us, we saw that the > project attracted quite a few "casual mappers" who spent half a day > just to be part of it but who would most likely not have signed up > to participate in a limited access project. So if it *can* be > avoided that's certainly useful. > > Sometimes when the licensor requests that access be limited, one can > talk them into accepting some heavy watermarking on the images > instead, which makes them un-interesting for any application but > tracing. They are more likely to allow such images out in the open.
From memory, all that the license requires is that it isn't made generally available as a free on-line internet resource and that it is used for the agreed purpose by known people. We would need to take advice on it, but I see no reason why mappers can't sign-up to use the photography on-line and agree to use it only for this purpose. In other words it will take a little thought but is certainly much easier and faster than doing our own photography and would allow people to get instant access to the photography. Regards, Peter > > > Bye > Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
