[OSM-legal-talk] Yahoo satellite imagery in Merkaartor

[Tom Hughes]

In message <20080205095902.GC30637 at jafshome.irule.be>
        bvh <bvh-osm at irule.be> wrote:

> As some may know : merkaartor is an offline editor for OSM, similar
> in purpose and intent as JOSM.
>
> Chris Browet has been working on a patch to add a Yahoo layer to
> merkaartor and has made great progress lately. So I am considering
> including his work into the OSM subversion repository and include
> it in the next release of merkaartor.
>
> The wiki is not really clear on offline editors using Yahoo
> imagery (it states that it is 'likely permitted').

As I understand the situation it is fine, so long as you use one
of the two Yahoo provided APIs to access it - either the javascript
one or the flash one.

Tom

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