Apologies if this topic is done and dusted, but I've searched the archives and the closest thread I can find is inconclusive. I've read (I think) all the advice about tracing from aerial imagery and about yahoo aerial having the only legal aerial imagery of the lot. So I had a look at Google Earth's license and the only relevant sections I could find were about reverse engineering the code, nothing about using paths that you export from the application. Here is the scenario I am asking about:
1. I use Google Earth to view aerial images of my home town without having any of Google's annotations turned on. 2. Because I know my home town so well, I can recognize most of the features I see. I use the path feature to draw paths along them, around buildings, natural features, roads and so on. I give them names meaningful to me. 3. I export the lot as KML files. I pipe the KML files through GPSbabel to turn them into GPX files. 4. I import the GPX files into JOSM and based on my knowledge of the features, I trace roads, buildings, etc. on top of these into OSM. At no time have I referred to Google's (or anyone else's) map. I think I have done the work of recognizing the features from Google's photo and Google certainly doesn't restrict what I can do with the KML file I export, so can I use this method to draw OSM maps? I'm particularly interested in EU/UK law here, but would also love to hear opinions from other jurisdictions as I have to run a course soon that covers these topics! Blaine -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tracing-from-Google-Earth-%28aerial-imagery%29-tp23852450p23852450.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
