Quoting Chris Wilkinson :

> Hi there,
>
> Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> > Vivian Meazza a écrit :
> >
> >>Indeed, for your personal use, but the copyright definitely precludes their
> >>use to be distributed with or in FG. So unless you come up with either a
> >>work-around, or permission from Google you are simply doing this for your
> >>own amusement. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's a shame to
> >>expend effort on a product that cannot (legally) be shared with the FG
> >>community.
>
> What to do, what to do? Just when I thought I'd found a solution to my
> scenery improvement issues! :-)
>
> > What about distributing the URL of the image and a procedure ( scaling
> > factors and file name convention ) to get one's own copy of the texture ?
>
> Sounds tricky, but its a suggestion. I have noted it, and will prepare
> a preliminary instruction in case its our only option... :-)

You can provide a free default texture taken from the Landsat 7 dataset. Atlas
0.3.1 has a tool called GetMap to get such an image

-Fred

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