- Original Message -
From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org
To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is tracing from Yahoo allowed under the CT's
David,
David Groom wrote:
Secondly
On 18 August 2010 09:37, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
By the way, all the images I've personally seen in the Yahoo API (this
isn't the same as maps.yahoo.com) are most likely USGS. So there is
no license. It's public domain.
Maybe for the US, but what about the rest of the world? AFAIK they
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 August 2010 09:37, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
By the way, all the images I've personally seen in the Yahoo API (this
isn't the same as maps.yahoo.com) are most likely USGS. So there is
no license. It's
On 18 August 2010 09:53, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
In my experience the Yahoo imagery outside the US is fairly low
resolution. But I haven't looked everywhere, so maybe I'm missing
some.
They cover about 50,000km^2 for Australia in reasonably high res imagery...
Apparently Yahoo gets
On 18 August 2010 10:12, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
No. It doesn't. Even if satellite images can be copyrighted (and
that alone is questionable), using them to make ways which follow
roads almost surely wouldn't constitute a derivative work, because it
doesn't copy any of the arguably
