yes, but a very limited amount of land is covered. Having high-res maps is particularly critical for cities and towns at low altitudes.
-Rob
On 5/27/06, GWMobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
>> > 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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