[talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

James Andrewartha trs80 at tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Wed Nov 4 10:47:33 GMT 2009


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote:

> 2009/11/4 James Andrewartha <trs80 at tartarus.uwa.edu.au>:
> > I couldn't say, but they might do it once for free (vs the regular updates
> > planned for cities). For example, the WA coverage currently goes from
> 
> Do you work for this company, or have a contact with them?

Nope, I just read their presentations and website thoroughly and inferred 
their business model would support a single flyover as a hook to get 
commercial and government licenses which would pay for regular updates.

Speaking of licenses, you should probably have a read of the commercial 
ones - it's not clear to me if Big Tin Can Maps qualifies for the free 
one, although IANAL.

James Andrewartha





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