Mat If you've not already read it, please read my reply to David Luff before reading on.
> Just to clear up the visualflight question, the scenery I have built > does not use the visualflight scenery rather the same source material as > visualflight. I'm not sure David was implying this, but it's certainly worth clarifying. > This is a UK company called Getmapping that has done an almost complete > aerial survey of the UK. They actually sell this data in fairly large > chunks for 15 pounds a CD here. I very much doubt that they "sell" the data. It is far more likely that they license it for specific uses as detailed in the EULA. The EULA will also detail the restrictions on what you are allowed to do with the data. > The idea I was following was that it would be fairly straightforward to > bring together some existing terragear tools to fully or partially > automate the process of chopping up (chop.pl) and assigning a lat/long > (tguserdef) to any aerial photos. If the photos were purchased by the > Flightgear user or publicly available, then it seems that this would > only comprise an innovative way of viewing the images. Re-sale, or > distribution being another matter. This very much depends on the terms of the EULA which I haven't seen, but I've be very surprised if "purchasing" by an individual user would allow this, and I can't imagine what you're referring to when you say that the photos may be "publicly available" - even the Getmapping imagery on the multimap web site remains copyright of Getmapping. There seems to be a widespread misbelief that anything available on the internet is fair game, but this is very often not the case. Even the images on terraserver.com remain copyright of the data suppliers, and there are limitations on what you are allowed to do with these. It's important to remember that copyright remains with the copyright owner even if it is not specifically stated, and you cannot assume any rights over the data that you have not been specifically assigned. Mally --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.572 / Virus Database: 362 - Release Date: 27/01/04 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
