On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2010/1/4 Anthony <[email protected]>:
> > Do they have Internet access there?  If so, then they can map it
> > themselves.  If not, then there's not much point in us mapping it for
> them
> > anyway.
>
> I didn't think we were mapping just for locals, what about tourists?
>

They can contribute GPS traces too!


> > Well, what about copyrighted aerial photographs?  If you're going to be
> > completely paranoid about things, why are we allowing tracing in the
> first
> > place?
>
> Because we have permission to use them, in the case of nearmap they
> added OSM into their terms and conditions explicitly allowing us to
> use their imagery to derive map data.
>

Does "Nearmap" own the copyright on the images?
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