[OAM-talk] A can of worms. (varying licenses on imagery)

[Nick Black]

On Jan 11, 2008 12:45 AM, Ian Stirling <openaerialmap at mauve.plus.com> wrote:
> I may in the next year or two be in a position of having moderately
> large amounts of my country aerial mapped.
>
> As this would be one of my main sources of income, I'm unwilling to do
> the not inconsiderable amount of work, and then donate it, as I'd find
> it hard to do other things I have an interest in, for example eating.
>
> I want however to make the imagery available to projects like openstreetmap.
>




> My first thoughts as to what I would like are some license that says
> something like:
>
> You can use this data for any non-commerical purpose.

This would be incompatible for OpenStreetMap as the CC-by-SA license
allows commercial use.   Of course, as the licensor of the data you
would be able to grant special permission for usage of the data by
specific projects, like the Yahoo! OSM agreement.

If you are looking for routes to commercialise aerial imagery,
http://www.weogeo.com/ might be the sort of thing you are looking for.



> Access per-tile for commercial purposes for $w
> You can buy a tile of this data as a one-off for your commercial project
> for $x.
> After 5 purchases of the imagery have been made, or on the payment of
> $4x, the data is released cc-by-sa, or some other license.
>
> z% of the funds for this go back to openaerialmap.org.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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