[OSM-talk] Fw: Yahoo! imagery in OSM

[80n]

So, while we are waiting for the applet to be ready, can we legally look at
the satellite imagery on Yahoo! Maps and make inferences from them - such as
land use boundaries, identification of missing roads, confirmation of
features etc?

80n

On 12/4/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> * @ 04/12/06 11:58:28 AM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> > -
> >
> >
> >
> > * @ 04/12/06 10:46:29 AM jim at jibbering.com wrote:
> > >>
> > >> "SteveC" <steve at asklater.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:20061204103429.GD4817 at asklater.com...
> > >> >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.
> >
> > >have fun,
> >
> > >SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
> >
> > When they are ready to give the goahead to other clients (like JOSM), it
> > should be a pretty easy task, I would guess, to modify the existing JOSM
> > Landsat plugin to grab stuff from Yahoo! as well.
>
> And not only that, but the code has already been written for the applet.
>
> Though I'm sure Imi would reject it :-)
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
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