Natural Earth data is a wonderful free and open service from the folks at NACIS and cartographers around the globe. Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and Tom Patterson led the effort.
It has NOTHING to do with Google. The Terms of Use on the page https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ state: "All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain. You may use the maps in any manner, including modifying the content and design, electronic dissemination, and offset printing. The primary authors, Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, and all other contributors renounce all financial claim to the maps and invites you to use them for personal, educational, and commercial purposes. No permission is needed to use Natural Earth. Crediting the authors is unnecessary. However, if you wish to cite the map data, simply use one of the following. Short text: Made with Natural Earth. Long text: Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com." -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC- University Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (The Netherlands) ITC Building (Hengelosestraat 99) room 1-065 +31-(0)53 4874 253 On 31/03/2020, 11:18, "Qgis-user on behalf of Hamish Macdonald" <qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of hamfra...@gmail.com<mailto:hamfra...@gmail.com>> wrote: Many thanks. Sorry to add a pesky question, do you know if this applies also to Natural Earth? Is it separate or a part of google? On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 10:21, Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> wrote: Hi Hamish, Yes, copyright has to be taken into account for any data sources you use in your QGIS project. Esp. base maps. Note, f.e. that you cannot use Google Maps as a background layer for your new map. The terms of Google Maps disallow to create any new maps based on their data, if it isn't using the Google Maps API and keys. You can use OpenStreetMap as a base map, but they also have a copyright: you have to mention that you use their data, if you want to use it. And you are not allowed to derive any data from Google Maps base data. Text and images, as you say, also have copyright. Greetings, Andreas Am 31.03.20 um 10:18 schrieb Hamish Macdonald: Thanks for the speedy reply, Andreas. Much appreciated. By data do you mean stuff like statistics, insert photos, written information about a location from another source, etc? Best wishes Hamish On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 10:08, Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> wrote: Hi Hamish, Your assumptions are right. As the map author, when you are creating new maps in QGIS, you are the copyright owner of your map. However, as Paolo pointed out, if you load data from various sources, you'd have to first check the copyright conditions of the data you use to create your maps. Greetings, Andreas Am 31.03.20 um 09:34 schrieb Hamish Macdonald: Good morning, I am an historian looking to bring to life a work for publication illustrated by annotated physical and cultural maps inspired by examples seen from QGIS training videos. As a stumbling beginner I have already invested many hours trying to master the basics. However, before I invest many more hours and finessing maps I need to know urgently if I will have to pay copyright permission to use my maps in a publication. Am I being naive in thinking maps created become my own property and copyright just applies if I attempted to develop software using elements found through QGIS? The latter is my impression scrolling through terms and conditions. I.e maps produced are free and become my copyright in a publication? Thank you in anticipation of your time. Best wishes Hamish Macdonald _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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