I saw this user used nearmap api when checking reverts on hdyc. Isn’t the use of nearmap and other proprietary sources against OdBL?
If this is not the appropriate place to ask this question please let me know.
Well the AI friend tells that the permission to use Nearmap with OSM ended in 2011, so no use allowed, to quote
“Past OpenStreetMap use:
Nearmap permitted use of its imagery for tracing in OpenStreetMap until June 17, 2011, and agreed that existing derived data could remain.”
Please don’t post “AI” answers that don’t include source links. It could be completely wrong. That is not helpful!
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Well, Nearmap incorporates data from Google Streetmap and Streetview, so they say on their front page. Think we all know we’re not allowed to use that, directly or indirectly.
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Well, this was probably the source for the AI-answer (I agree do not take them for granted, check them before you trust them…)
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‘against the ODbL’ is a slightly weird way of putting it, but yes, we have no current permission to use any of their products afaik. Historically, pre-licence change we were allowed to use a specific image source of theirs which has already been pointed out.
In any case you should contact the mapper in question via a changeset comment before doing anything drastic.
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I contacted the contributed. I’m not sure he understands how ODbL works.
His response:
“Hi, access is through the NCTCOG’s Spatial Data Cooperative Program.”
They may be confusing their permission to access the imagery with their (our) permission to redistribute the data. NCTCOG’s requirement for co-op members to have contractors sign a licensing agreement doesn’t leave me optimistic that the imagery is suitably licensed for OSM, but I guess it couldn’t hurt to ask NCTCOG for permission anyways.
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I concur. If we could have permission that would be fantastic.