[Live-demo] License on data

[Alex Mandel]

On 12/12/2012 11:01 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> On 12/12/12 22:52, Scott Penrose wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2012, at 10:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> How about this?
>>> Can we use it?
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ASTER
>>> http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp
>>
>> Thanks for those, worth noting as a long term replacement.
>>
>> Looks lots better too -
>> http://www.opentopography.org/index.php/blog/detail/comparison_of_aster_gdem_to_srtm
>>
>>
>>
> While the ASTER might be good for other projects, for OSGeo-Live we'd
> still prefer to use existing datasets if possible, as we wish to keep
> the disc size to a minimum, and it also helps keep a bit of consistency
> between projects.
> 

SRTM is not inherently restricted, some derived products have been
licensed non-commercial....
If you get it from NASA it's no problem. I'm fairly sure that
NaturalEarth is SRTM based too....

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SRTM

So we just need to use a source that isn't restricted.

Thanks,
Alex