On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 3:18:25 pm Dave Stubbs wrote: > > Sorry for misleading title, but I still don't understand how this can be > > permitted. > > It isn't permitted. Don't let the posts here arguing the details of > whether it should be permitted confuse anything. > OSM has one simple rule: if in doubt, don't. > > A lot of people think it's probably OK, but but Google aren't exactly > unambiguous on the issue and there are certainly enough people around > claiming rights that it leaves reasonable doubt unless the provider > tells you explicitly that it's OK. Or in brief: don't use Google for > OSM. >
look, a few days back someone (I think it was Richard Fairhurst) started a campaign asking google to allow us to trace their imagery. A lot of us signed up. The answer was a flat 'no'. So there is nothing ambigous about it. Yahoo! has said 'yes', google has said 'no'. Fullstop. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
