Hi Rich, Regarding the use of Google Maps for digitizing, I just bumped into another site stating the permissions. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure I understood everything correctly. But from the site, I could not find anything prohibiting the use of Google Maps to digitize things 'not for profit'.
https://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines/ Of course, I could be wrong... As for your other question, about using v.digit, I'm afraid I can't give much help. Cheers Daniel On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:11 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Daniel Victoria wrote: > > > Not sure if r.in.gdal or r.in.wms can load Google Earth tiles. > > Daniel, > > Both are worth a try. > > > QGIS has a nice way of loading external tiles and WMS servers as a > > background image. You could than digitize on top of that. But since > Google > > changed their MAPs API, I'm not sure if QGIS is loading Google Earth > > Images straight out of the box. It's been a while since I've used this > > feature. > > Also something for me to consider. > > > Also, I'm not sure what to make of this part of the Google Maps Platform > > terms of service, in the section about "restrictions against misusing" > > > (a) No Scraping. Customer will not extract, export, scrape, or cache > > Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer > > will not:(i) pre-fetch, index, store, reshare, or rehost Google Maps > > Content outside the services; (ii) bulk download geocodes; (iii) copy > > business names, addresses, or user reviews; or (iv) use Google Maps > Content > > with text-to-speech services. Caching is permitted for certain Services > as > > described in the Maps Service Specific Terms. > > > > (b) No Creating Content From Google Maps Content. Customer will not > create > > content based on Google Maps Content, including tracing, digitizing, or > > creating other datasets based on Google Maps Content > > I read the above as prohibiting re-using GE maps in web applications or for > profit as products, but not prohibiting using the tiles as background for > maps produced by a GIS. > > The other part of my question, which was not clearly stated, is how to use > v.edit or the GUI digitizing tool to closely follow an edge in a background > map. Perhaps the way to do this is to zoom in on a small section, digitize > a > series of short arcs, save the work and exit digitizing, then pan the > working widow and repeat the above. I've not been able to digitize a > project > area, for example, while viewing the entire area. > > Thanks for your reply, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
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