Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-20 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Alan. As far as I remember we are allowed to use Bing imagery for tracing inside the osm community, but we are not allowed to use the imagery publicly on the web unconnected to tracing issues. If I'm right, it is not allowed what you want - and I think, if it would be okay, some would have

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-20 Thread Alex Rollin
http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.dewrote: Hi Alan. As far as I remember we are allowed to use Bing imagery for tracing inside the osm community, but we are not allowed to use the imagery publicly on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/20/12 04:05, Alan Mintz wrote: Is there a browser-viewable OSM-with-Bing-imagery-mashup somewhere that can be used as citable source for Wikipedia? I am not aware of any. Closest there is is probably this OpenMapSurfer hybrid view that combines MapQuest open with an OSM overlay:

Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-20 Thread Shaun McDonald
You may be interested in this conversation on the Wikipedia re geocoding coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Legal_issues_relating_to_geocodes_derived_from_various_sources Shaun On 20 Jul 2012, at 03:05, Alan Mintz wrote: Is there a

[OSM-talk] Slippy map with Bing background

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Mintz
Is there a browser-viewable OSM-with-Bing-imagery-mashup somewhere that can be used as citable source for Wikipedia? I'm suggesting OSM as a potential source for accurate coordinates in WP articles, but realize that positioning is not necessarily reliable unless specifically tagged or easily