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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