[OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

[Richard Fairhurst]

Sam Larsen wrote:
> "you cannot create permanent, offline copies of the imagery"
> Isn't this why we couldn't use SPOT imagery for HOT in Pakistan using 
> Potlatch - we were only able to use JOSM (& others) due to local 
> caching of tiles in Potlatch.  Is this an issue?  

No. Caching is not "permanent", and since every web browser caches (well,
ok, probably not Lynx etc.), to forbid this would be to forbid all usage of
the Bing API. I believe SPOT's problem is that they simply don't want their
data accessible via the web for.

cheers
Richard


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