The city orthoscopic aerial photo area from nasa are public domain as
well and much higher res than landsat.
On Sat, 27 May 2006 5:59 am, Paul Surgeon wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 09:41, Pigeon wrote:
> Then as a separate and non official flight gear project others could
> write a keystroke script to get google earth or probably easier
google
> maps to display tiles around the area you want to fly and screen
capture
> them and save them to a directory in flightgear along with an
> appropriate latitude and longitude.
Currently they do not allow any non-web application use the google
map data/images. Not sure about google earth but i imagine similar
terms
of use. And I think you can't capture or save the map images data by
any
mean for other uses either.
Pigeon.
I've had this same discussion before with Silent Wings users who don't
seem to
understand that if you can see something for free on the Internet
doesn't
make it free to use for other purposes.
I'll spare everyone the pain and post the nasty bits of the Google
Earth
license. The same applies to Google Maps - it may only be viewed in a
web
browser. Period.
3. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
(a) You are only licensing rights to use the Software and the
geographical information available to be viewed using the Software. The
Software, in whole and in part and all copies thereof, are and will
remain the sole and exclusive property of Google. Further, you do not
receive
any, and Google and/or its licensors (if any) retain all,
ownership rights in the geographic information displayed using the
Software. The geographic information is copyrighted and may not be
copied, even if modified or merged with other data or software. Your
use and
access of the geographical information may be subject to further
license
requirements or obligations.
As far as I can tell all the NASA World Wind data is released under
public
domain so that would be the best avenue to pursue unless someone wants
to
play with Google and get sued. The vast majority of the data is Landsat
7
ETM+ data which has a maximum resolution of 14.24 meters/pixel after
being
pan sharpened. Looks good from an altitude of about 3000km (~10000ft)
or in
mountaineous areas like the European Alps.
Paul
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