On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>wrote:
> You still need to go and visit the streets. With the London mapping parties > last year after most of London was traced from the Yahoo imagery, what was > found was: > * Many places the imagery was out of date, and the road layout had changed. > The nearmap images are very fresh - a few months at worst. > * There were lots of POIs on the ground that still needed to be collected > due to be being able to be seen from above. > Sure, but that's a whole separate piece of work. First priority is surely to get streets mapped, then their names, then other POIs... > * Tree cover, overhanging or tall buildings obscured some things that > needed to be captured, thus needing the on the ground survey. > Yep, these are additional benefits to visiting the street. But if I was going to be doing ground surveys, there are lots of places I'd rather visit than these new outer suburban housing developments. > > That copying, they may have all got it from the same wrong source, or it > may have changed since they last surveyed. > But from a copyright point of view, is it acceptable? (Let's not do the "what would you do if you had infinite time" debate again. I don't have infinite time. Can I copy the street names off Google Maps/Melway/Yahoo/... or not? Steve
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