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It seems strangely ambiguous: "(geospatial imagery) and (point clouds)" or "geospatial (imagery and point clouds)"? Point 4 requires the use of geospatial ima
by lopmotr 7y ago
It seems strangely ambiguous:
"(geospatial imagery) and (point clouds)" or "geospatial (imagery and point clouds)"?
Point 4 requires the use of geospatial imagery, so any point-cloud-only product would be exempt, it seems?
The document doesn't define "geospatial imagery", but that could surely include hobby and commercial drone footage of the ground. Perhaps even ordinary photography from security cameras that have user-define object identification features? That would make it really quite broad.
But all we need to do is not normalize color, and then everything's exempt!
- Frost1x 7y agoWas doing similar work on a project using sonar imaging for the bottom of water bodies to much of what they're excluding. Not sure how concerned they'd be with identify freshwater creatures and riverbed structures...
- jahewson 7y agoYou’re forgetting that how the word “and” works in English is often not the same as logical AND, e.g. in “give me a list of people who live in New York and Los Angeles” the “and” means OR.
- lopmotr 7y agoGood point. Though I think "and" in those other cases really means something like "additionally" or "plus" rather than OR. You sentence could be written "... list of people who live in NY and people who live in LA.". But it's still confusing here. If they mean it applies to both imagery software and point cloud software, then point cloud software would be excluded in point 2 because it doesn't have pixels or color (if lidar/etc). So it must be software that uses both. That makes more sense if it's aimed at a specific existing product.