Much of this data has already been ground surveyed. Would it be possible based on the source tags to mark things odbl=clean?
I think that would take care of a large majority of the problem, since there has been so much on the ground work since the earthquake. -Kate On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Michael Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote: > On 02/02/2012 16:23, Larry O'Neill wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Apologies for any overlap in recipients for this - I very rarely post to >> mailing lists, so I am not sure how wide a net for this issue would be >> appropriate. >> >> There was a discussion on the #osm irc channel recently about the >> possibility of approaching non-agreers to the new CT about any data they may >> have contributed to areas where the removal of such data could have a >> negative effect on our humanitarian efforts. >> Looking for example at how much data we stand to lose in Haiti, this is >> something that may limit the difficulty of those that are on the ground in >> these places and struggling to remap. >> >> The possibility of haing a bounding box around areas such as these was >> mentioned - and there is aparantly a precedent for a users data within a BB >> being retained. >> >> Any thoughts, comments, or points? >> >> Thanks, >> Larry O'Neill > > > Hi Larry, > > It looks as though there are no specific licensing issues as regards base > data/photos used in Haiti [1]. The issue appears to be confined to mappers > who have been active in the area but have either declined or not yet > responded to requests to re-license? [2] > > We will need their individual permissions, the simplest way being just to > ask them to respond to the new terms. Friendly, courteous messages coming > from individual mappers working in the same area have been highly effective > in a number of countries. I would expect it to be doubly so here. We can > then revisit the issue in say, two weeks time and see if anyone is left. > > I am immediately going to ask for a Haiti/Dominican Republic link to be > added to http://odbl.de/ and http://odbl.poole.ch/ Then you can just read > off the names and status. > > Meanwhile, you can use the OSMI License View tool to get started. Here is an > incomplete list I just grabbed using it: > > Exponent, Brent Miller, cetest, osmapb1, Tinono, rendle, Tinono, EvaStern, > robbert, Sidneyleenen, Elle_M, DDDarek, veugelke, Mirko Küster, Eddy > Frometa, Alfredo Gil, Jochen Plumeyer, llibre > > It is good know their status. You can do that by feeding them into > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xxxx or seeing if they are on > > http://odbl.poole.ch/central-america-20111208-20120201-poly.html > > This wiki page can be used to coordinate efforts: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL > > Please do not hesitate to coordinate with us at le...@osmfoundation.org . We > will do our best to assist. > > Mike > License Working Group > > [1]. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue (Appears to be only > Digital Orthophotos) > > [2] > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-71.35913&lat=18.22309&zoom=7&opacity=0.69&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk