<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Shaun McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk">shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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:<br>
* Many places the imagery was out of date, and the road layout had changed.<br></blockquote><div><br>The nearmap images are very fresh - a few months at worst.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* There were lots of POIs on the ground that still needed to be collected due to be being able to be seen from above.<br></blockquote><div><br>Sure, but that's a whole separate piece of work. First priority is surely to get streets mapped, then their names, then other POIs...<br>
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* Tree cover, overhanging or tall buildings obscured some things that needed to be captured, thus needing the on the ground survey.<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
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</div>That copying, they may have all got it from the same wrong source, or it may have changed since they last surveyed.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>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?<br>
<br>Steve<br></div></div><br>