On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 01:29 +0300, Upliner wrote: > Imagery plugin which combines wmsplugin and slippymap plugin is now > available. It's in experimental stage and there is some questions > about future of these plugins, however tracing the Bing imagery with > offset correction seems to work well.
You are aware that accessing Bing images other than directly through their API is against the licence? ie. you cannot make an external WMS layer or rewriter, to give others access non-directly to the API. On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:07 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: > > > and it is legal to use it? > > Yes, see http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details. > > Richard Fairhurst, seems to be in closer contact with the people from MS > and there may be minor revisions, but these are basically the terms we have. This is a scary thought. Does this mean the Bing licence has the same catch as the odbl licence, where 'we may change to any other licence in the future'? Is there any hope of the licence being decided upon and not being changed in the future? Should we wait until that stage, to ensure they dont screw us over, and once a big portion of map data is bing-derived, claim they own all derived works for themselves, which as its all tagged as coming from bing, they'd be legally entitled to do so. It does sort of surprise me that licences can be drawn up for Bing in a matter of days (over a holiday weekend), but the odbl and CTs still cant reach agreement after (apparently) how many years since they were introduced. It shows that if you really want things to happen, they can. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
