Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Andrew Laughton
There are not that many words here, so it should be harder to go astray, but the following lines present problems; you must use the imagery as presented in the API, you cannot modify or edit the imagery, This part implies that you cannot use it as a layer, by modifying the imagery with map

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-12-01 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 19:22 +0800, 4x4falcon wrote: On 01/12/10 18:46, Andrew Laughton wrote: you must use the imagery as presented in the API, you cannot modify or edit the imagery, This part implies that you cannot use it as a layer, by modifying the imagery with map overlays.

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-30 Thread John Smith
This post seems to indicate the legal issues have been sorted out, and the terms the imagery can be used under: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Opengeodata/~3/kukbUtOllso/microsoft-imagery-details I also started making a relation showing areas that Bing covers for Australia:

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-26 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent. The thought does occur that if one used source=bing, and started tracing now, and for some reason the legal agreement didn't eventuate, it would be easy to simply wipe all that data. But that would be making

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 25 November 2010 07:21, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:41:04 +1000 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Planning to enable access is not the same as enabling access. So, at the moment, we can't use it. Merkaartor is ready to go, as soon as the

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Actually all editors are ready to go as soon as we know the legal circumstances. So people will be able to use their favorite editors to access Bing imagery. That said, until we have the legalese, we should avoid

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Luke Woolley
How are some people already claiming to be tracing? From what i've seen, international users are already tracing their coverage areas. I thought that Bing uses a different url to the standard whatever.com/xyz that our editors (and NearMap) support. Is there already a usable URL out there that can

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Luke W. (lakeyboy) wrote: Is there already a usable URL out there that can be put into Potlatch 2 or other editors? You could in theory use Bing right now in Potlatch 2 if you run your own instance, but although the code's been written, none of the public instances (Geowiki, MapQuest, or even

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Stephen Hope
On 26 November 2010 08:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent. The thought does occur that if one used source=bing, and started tracing now, and for some reason the legal agreement didn't eventuate, it would be easy to simply wipe all that data. But that would be making life

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: It's quite possible that they might end up saying - yes it can be done, but not in certain areas, or some similar restriction.  They get imagery from a range of suppliers, and would have to check that they are not breaking

[talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Bennett
MS allowing imagery to be used is great news, particularly in the (temporary?) absence of Nearmap: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1602/how-can-i-use-microsofts-aerial-imagery-in-potlatch Having a quick skim in one area, they obviously don't have the detail of Nearmap but it's still

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread John Smith
On 25 November 2010 12:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: landuse, and at a stretch, bike paths etc. I guess John Smith will be mapping out the boundaries of the coverage? Should be interesting. There is no news here until they actually allow it, so far they are claiming they can't.

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Slater
On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 12:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: landuse, and at a stretch, bike paths etc. I guess John Smith will be mapping out the boundaries of the coverage? Should be interesting. There is no news

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread John Smith
On 25 November 2010 13:20, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 12:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: landuse, and at a stretch, bike paths etc. I guess John Smith will be mapping

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Stephen Hope
On 25 November 2010 13:20, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: There is no news here until they actually allow it, so far they are claiming they can't. Interesting choice of words. I think you'll find there

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:41:04 +1000 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Planning to enable access is not the same as enabling access. So, at the moment, we can't use it. Merkaartor is ready to go, as soon as the legalities are OK. from Merkaartor list I guess we need a good way to use the