Wikipedia talk:Graphics Lab/Resources/GIS sources and palettes: Difference between revisions

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* warning icon for "non wikipedia compatible license", and

* star/quality icon for "must to download, great for wikimaps (map convention)".

Need to choice one. [[User:Yug|Yug]] [[User talk:Yug|<small><fontspan style="color:green;">(talk)</fontspan></small>]] 05:18, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

== ASTER not public ___domain? ==

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Can we use this? [[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] ([[User talk:Secretlondon|talk]]) 17:51, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

:USGS's as all federal agency's works are by the American law within the Public ___domain. Then, they push push to keep the distribusion centralized : they don't want forks appearing around the web. Same for the citation: that make sense academically. This is their wishes, but not law. I'm pretty sure the file are PD. [[User:Yug|Yug]] [[User talk:Yug|<small><fontspan style="color:green;">(talk)</fontspan></small>]] 22:54, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

::It's a joint project with the Japanese though. Not all contracted projects of the US gov are PD - [[Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government]].

::They say that you cannot distribute the data or distribute anything that allows the data to be recreated from your work:

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Images that are created using GDEM data may be re-distributed through publications or social media applications. Papers citing such articles may be re-distributed as well."

:::They make it sound like it is more about capturing usage data - the registration form was quite detailed (it wanted institution, phone number etc) and I needed to select between one of the following to download the data: "disasters, health, energy, climate, water, weather, ecosystems, agriculture, or biodiversity". However it was produced by NASA.. [[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] ([[User talk:Secretlondon|talk]]) 00:32, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

::::Data is not recoverable from our maps. Clearly. With all the cuts, colorations, vectorisations, icons we add, while you have the original source just out there. Our job is not data redistributions, it's illustration. [[User:Yug|Yug]] [[User talk:Yug|<small><fontspan style="color:green;">(talk)</fontspan></small>]] 17:52, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

== SRTM V3.0 ==