On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Stephen Hope <[email protected]> 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 any contracts by allowing this. If they got to the
Good point. > I've had a look at some areas in Queensland - not as detailed as the > nearmap imagery, but pretty good, and covers at least some areas I'm > interested in that nearmap doesn't. I did a quick check on the roads > layer, and they have some of the same non-existent roads marked that > Google maps and my GPS do, so they must all be sourcing it from the > same database. I suspect the roads may have been gazetted, but never > built. And not likely to either, the terrain is terrible for a road, > and there's no need for it. Yeah, Google and Bing share the same source for much of rural Australia. I've sometimes used Bing just because I like their styling a bit better. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
