On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:43:25 Richard Lyons wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to mercaartor and to OSM. I would like to work on an area where > the Yahoo satellite photos are not available at a useful resolution. Is > there some way to use satellite photos from other sources, such as Google > (which does cover the area at a just acceptable resolution)? >
Welcome to Mer*k*aartor and OSM! No, Google has not explicitely granted the use of it's imagery or roaddata, in order to avoid any confusement over the license of OSM their imagery and road-data cannot be used! On the bright side, Bing has allowed the use of their imagery and this has been implemented in Merkaartor since version 0.17 RC2. You can get RC4 right now from the website! http://merkaartor.be/projects/merkaartor/files Oliver _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list Merkaartor@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor