On 3/31/2020 7:26 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
Hi, I am trying to find out at what point we sare with the Strava high-res heatmap. Forma a lagal point of view: can we use it for improving OSM? If yes, how can we do that? Unfortunately there is a lot of out-dated information around.
The latest I've heard is this thread from last November: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-November/083563.html Rodrigo Davies at Strava says they "don't currently see a problem" with using the heatmap for mapping. A screenshot of this communication was added to the wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Permissions/Strava The wording falls short of a formal licensed release so personally I'm not comfortable adding paths based on Strava data alone. But I've used it to help with aligning aerial imagery, double-checking my own GPS traces, and marking spots for further survey. I probably wouldn't be comfortable adding paths based on Strava data alone even if they did have an explicitly ODBL compatible license. Just because there are GPS traces doesn't mean there's a path (plenty of popular bushwacking routes in their data) and certainly doesn't tell me what value to use for the highway key. Jason _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
