Re: [HOT] QGIS and OSM and..

Wed, 13 May 2015 22:49:23 -0700

Hello Brad,

        Thanks very much for those references, sorry for the slow reply.  The gist of it seems to be that anything derived from Google Earth images inherits the copyright.  This seems like a bit of a stretch, but I guess that's what it is.

        But what if those derived files are not loaded into OSM?  If the helipad database that I was working on was not distributed through OSM, but directly to the end-users, then that might avoid the problem?

                 It seems a bit murky but thanks for the references, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison


At 12-05-2015 12:37 Tuesday, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Springfield Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
       I certainly don't comprehend the licensing issues but don't know why it should be overly difficult, especially in an emergency situation. I would understand if someone was trying to make a dollar off Google Earth. Or cause a liability for them somehow.

        However, what are the copyright issues of creating a database of points in QGIS over a Bing, MapQuest or Google maps layer? I suppose they are all licensed differently perhaps. More lawyers getting richer!

These two FAQs might help:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#2a._Can_I_trace_data_from_Google_Maps.2FNokia_Maps.2F....3F

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F 
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