Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Sorry Emilie if you were planning an official announcement, I've posted right after reading the info on the OSM Talk-fr, hope it's OK.
Once again congratulations to every person involved in this agreement, it's a great progress for OpenStreetMap in general :) Jeremy 2010/10/5 Jean-Francois (Jeff) Faudi <jeanfrancois.fa...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I am talking on behalf of Spot Image. At this stage, we are only making a > test over France. As soon as possible, we will try to evaluate the mutual > benefits for Spot Image and OpenStreetMap in order to foster an extended > collaboration. > > Here is the SPOtMaps page in English : > http://www.spotimage.com/web/en/1285-spotmaps.php > > And I just want to correct the spelling for the source tag : source=Cnes / > Spot Image > > Jeff. > > -- > Jean-Francois FAUDI, Spot Image Labs > Web Site : http://www.spotimage.com | http://labs.spotimage.com/ > > > 2010/10/5 Vincent Pottier <vpott...@gmail.com> > >> On 05/10/2010 15:11, Pieren wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> but it seems >>> that SPOT is an aggregate of differently licensed data. So what >>> applies to France doesn't for the rest of the world. >>> >>> But maybe someone else can correct me on that, I'm not sure. >>> >>> >>> >> SPOT is an imagery provider, so they can apply the licence they want on >> their production. They decided to create a special one for this experimental >> phase of 6 months. The special licence for OSM (in english) is here: >> http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html >> >> SPOTmaps, the product (in french): >> http://www.spotimage.com/web/2214-spotmaps-tableau.php >> >> As Emilie said, it's 2.5m resolution + 15m accuracy for France, >> orthorecitified. It is normally sold 2€ per km2 but is free for France and >> only for OpenStreetMap for the next 6 months, renewable. After this period >> and depending on its success, geographic extensions will be evaluated by >> SPOT. >> >> Pieren >> >> So people mapping using the SPOT imagery are invited to add the source >> "CNET/SPOT image" on they data to help evaluating, to see the experience >> reconducted, and maybe extended to other countries. >> -- >> FrViPofm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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