On 25 November 2010 07:21, Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:41:04 +1000 > Stephen Hope <[email protected]> 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 Bing photos in Merkaartor now. > >> Or can we already? Some insight can be found here: > >> http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fbb259689.aspx > >> > >> Preliminary (as we actually have no idea of what will be allowed, > >> yet) > > version of Bing Maps plugin is in GIT. > > A snapshot including that was uploaded to Debian experimental some > minutes ago. > > 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 tracing on the data, as we really don't want to end up in a situation where we might be infringing. As for the timeframe, from what I have been told, it is a matter of weeks than months as they have been looking into the issue for some time. I tweeted at the State Of the Map conference (back in July) pointing out that Bing was looking into the issue (I had asked the Bing guy) so I suspect we will have a clear answer soon.
Emily Laffray
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