[OAM-talk] OAM + Brest, France

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:10:46PM +0100, François Van Der Biest wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> In fact, I've just discovered OAM very recently, after reading recent 
> posts on osgeo's geodata list.
> There's something not quite clear in my mind about this (great) project, 
> which has been emphasized as I wanted to upload data into it.
> The "about" page states that "This project is an attempt to gather data 
> from various free and open aerial imagery datasources around the world, 
> and use them to create a single, coherent open world view". But what 
> does "free and open" mean (I know this is stupid, but everything relates 
> to this ...) ?

There is no consensus yet. The project only really started about 2 days
ago. The best place to ask this is to subscribe to the mailing list
http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org and ask
there.

I've CCed that list on my response here. 

> Do you think I have the right to upload data that is protected under a 
> CC by-nc-sa 2.0 license ?

I would be against that, since I'm already using the data in situations
that are considered commercial under the terms of the CC license.

In the end, my hope is that we can collect this data, and allow users to
choose what rights they want, and then they'll get imagery that meets
their specific requirements. However, that's not going to happen in the
next couple days -- and possibly not the next couple weeks, because it's
somewhat difficult to implement caching for all those different
collections of layers atm. 

> For instance, the french city of Brest released about two years ago some 
> great hi-res imagery :  http://www.brest-metropole-oceane.fr/vueduciel/ ...
> Attribution would be satisfied, since "The Map" is able to display such 
> information.
> Non commercial : I have no idea of what the data can be used for.

Anyone can drop OAM maps into any map. There are already people creating
maps on remote sites that don't provide attribution, and people can just
as easily start making money off these sites as well. I would advise
against uploading data with NC or SA restrictions until these issues are
worked out better. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer