[OSM-talk] Yahoo! imagery in OSM

[Artem Pavlenko]

Great news about Y! aerial data. When the dust settles we could start 
overlapping transparent OSM on top aka 'hybrid'
map:).
Artem.


SteveC wrote:
> * @ 04/12/06 01:38:24 PM bvh-osm at irule.be wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:18:54AM +0000, SteveC wrote:
>>     
>>>>> Y! are understandably concerned about a massive spike in tile downloads 
>>>>> etc.
>>>>>           
>>>> Did you oversell how many OSM'ers there were, or have a few tens of thousand 
>>>> more people started on it recently?
>>>>         
>>> I didn't say _I_ was concerned.
>>>       
>> No but you _did_ say understandably... :)
>>     
>
> Yeah because if I was a corporate giant and someone suggested it would
> be a great idea if unknown hippy hackers on the other side of the world
> wrote clients that they had no control over, that may or may not show
> the correct data or copyrights (which they have agreements to uphold)...
> for free...
>
> ...and there are many other reasons to be cautious.
>
> Not everybody in the world is convinced OSM is good yet. :-(
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
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