You need to report this, with examples, to the DWG data@openstreetmap.org

Tee available global imagery mosaics (mapbox, ESRI, bing) use mostly imagery from Maxar for areas which don’t have better coverage. Maxar itself, as you may know, gave up providing a layer for OSM use, and it is up to the other providers to when they update.

So I guess the answer is no.

The point that you are getting wrong is that the people from the Linux Foundation Overture Maps are being paid to be there and being paid to be friendly and make the right noises. And being professionals they are good in doing exactly that.

They could be going to an event organised by google next week and attendees there will come back finding them friendly, supportive and so on just as you did from SOTM-US.

The only thing you can actually judge the organisation on is their actions, and after two and a half years things haven’t changed a jota (and I wouldn’t expect them to).

‘millions of organisations’?

Es ist leider so, dass die OSMF einerseits (bindend) garantiert, dass der Inholt der Profilseite vom Benutzer selber gestaltet werden kann, aber anderseits einfach irgendetwas drauf gepappt wird.

There’s not only the issues SomeoneElse points out, there are further roughly 10 million contracts the OSMF has entered in that require the OSM distribution licence to comply with the open definition.

There is no realistic way to change that and use a non-open licence.

While technically the licence of google buildings is compatible with OSM, importing ODbL licensed datasets in any larger fashion is an extremely bad idea, and essentially you are handing google significant power over the future of OpenStreetMap.

I would further note that these imports don’t seem to have been discussed anywhere where the above could have been pointed out to your in advance.

You need to find out how far Indian copyright regulation will restrict reuse of such maps. (by creating your OSM account you agreed to only using sources that you can legally use for editing OSM).

India is a signatory to the Berne convention and while there are likely to be some differences in the details, you are going to have to assume that the maps are protected by copyright.

The simple way around the problem though is to simply ask the map creators for permission.

Ideas see: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/114551733871420527

Using old ESRI imagery with the above method works with any app that supports custom imagery, not just iD and JOSM.

I would note that your point 1) is not correct, the ODbL in no way requires

To contribute their own data back to OSM (the “share alike” clause)

The ODbl only requires Derivative Databases (which may or may not contain additional data) to be licensed on ODbL terms, in practice that means that a recipient of the data can use it on the same licence terms as the creator of the derivative. Neither the creator of the derivative nor the recipient is required to provide it to a 3rd party, distribute it publicly or contribute to OSM.

@mpulve could you provide a link/screenshots to what you are using and that show the issues? As it is now your posting is quite puzzling.

There seems to be a small inconsistency wrt licensing. On the one hand you are claiming that everything is “Open Source” but on the other hand you are using a NC licence (see https://agroecologymap.org/en/license) that, by definition, is not an OSS licence.

Your ban seems to have little to nothing to do with the source material but far more with your behaviour towards your fellow mappers.

And as has been pointed out, just because we are allowed to use a specific source, doesn’t imply that it is suitable or even desirable to include in OSM.

Alternativ kannst du auch einen günstigen Laserdistanzmesser verwenden.

Es gibt auch solche von Bosch mit Bluetooth Unterstützung die im Prinzip auch in einer App integriert werden könnten, leider erlaubt Bosch die Nutzung des Protokolls nicht in Apps von Drittanbietern.

Small update: about a year or so back, google did actually start indexing the Android bug tracker.

Sure -you- don’t care, but lets just take the example of government organisations, up to now they had a multitude of options to acquire services outside of google from OSM based companies.

In the future they will just have the choice between the goog and an organisation controlled by Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

I think you are missing what the main disruptive impact of Overture really is and I might blog on that later. And yes the Linux Foundation at large, not just Marc don’t seem to understand that too.

But, it probably needs to be pointed out that contrary to what you imply, Michelle and Dorothea didn’t just randomly turn up one day, they are doing the jobs the OSMF employs them for.

@vorpalblade not only Java 17. There are at least 3 different http clients in wide use and I needed to abstract (admittedly in a bit of a hackish fashion) around that too. The thing my library has going for it that it has literally no third-party runtime dependencies so it is very lightweight.

@AkuAnakTimur quality is one aspect, but there are other reasons too.