[OSM-talk] yahoo sat images and coastal outlines (newb q's)

[David Groom]

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From: "Minty" <mintywalker at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:40 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] yahoo sat images and coastal outlines (newb q's)


> Just started doing some gps plotting, tracing & labelling for
> Edinburgh:)  Some questions arose, which I couldn't find an answer for
> and we are most curious about:
>
> re: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=120
>
> I assume the sat images are copyright?  So why is it okay to trace
> from them?  Is there anything you can point me at that discusses the
> issues for a newbie related to "Theres code in there which updates the
> relevant image copyrights which we must respect, along of course with
> Yahoos.".
>
> Does this mean I don't need to bother taking my GPS around Edinburgh?
> The sat images look good enough for tracing.
>
> Also - where did the copyright free coastal outlines come from for the
> UK?  Was this out of copyright data, or some US/NASA based data
> source, or something else entirely?

see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PGS , and in particular the link

 to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PGS_whitepaper

David
>
> Thanks,
> Murray.
>
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