On Wed, September 30, 2009 12:27, Craig Falconer wrote: > Yep those photos are worth a phenomenal amount to license. It was quite > a shock when google put fair quality photos out for free. > > A screen scrape is generally not going to be as good a quality as a full > res version either, but could be good enough.
You can get some nice photos from LINZ: http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography/aerial-images/index.aspx However, they are quite old now, and will not be updated. They are also very large. TUMONZ includes a package that shows aerial photos in its mapping package. IMHO TUMONZ was absolutely worth paying for 5 years ago, but I expect free software and free data will eat its lunch. There was a companion for OpenStreetMaps that started collating aerial photos, but it is currently on hiatus for various reasons. Interesting times we live in. Stuff like this was actually impossible years ago, then it was just expensive, now it's commonplace. Get off my lawn. A
