On 9/3/05, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that does concern me about using google maps however is > that you are still relying on a 3rd party provider (and somewhat of a > monopoly) to provide your data. It would be nice to see someone in > the open source community to take government-provided satellite > images and map those images to coordinates.
Aren't those satellite images that google has government-provided? I mean, does anyone but the government take satellite pictures of the entire world. > Somehow you would have > to get addresses to map to the coordinates which may not be possible > in an open fashion (although I think the USPS could probably provide > something of the like eventually if they were required to). Just > some thoughts... http://geocoder.us/ Bryan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
