Re: [GRASS-user] Digitizing from or converting Google Earth maps

2019-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Daniel Victoria wrote: 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

Re: [GRASS-user] Digitizing from or converting Google Earth maps

2019-02-05 Thread Daniel Victoria
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Digitizing from or converting Google Earth maps

2019-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Digitizing from or converting Google Earth maps

2019-02-04 Thread Daniel Victoria
Not sure if r.in.gdal or r.in.wms can load Google Earth tiles. 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