Re: [Qgis-user] Google to withdraw aerial images?

2016-02-16 Thread Neumann, Andreas
Hi Michael, I would also suggest you lobby for more open government data. There are many countries where there is a gradual shift to more open governmental data, including the UK. I am personally quite pleased how the open data movement develops across Europe and also in my own country, Switze

Re: [Qgis-user] Google to withdraw aerial images?

2016-02-16 Thread Andre Joost
Am 16.02.2016 um 21:46 schrieb Michael.Dodd: Is it time to start a campaign to keep the original imagery and at least have it accessible via qgis or other systems. Google allows to view their imagery only via their website. Any other use of it is contradictory to their terms of license. T

Re: [Qgis-user] Google to withdraw aerial images?

2016-02-16 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi Michael! How about https://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-mastermap-imagery-layer ? This is apparently not open data, but here in Sweden, all universities have open access to most geodata, including an orthopoto service from our National land survey. I am curious here; what is the Ordnance survey poli

[Qgis-user] Google to withdraw aerial images?

2016-02-16 Thread Michael . Dodd
Does anyone know if the aerial imagery that google provide, and which can be accessed into qgis projects, is being withdrawn? Looking at google maps aerial imagery for UK, the aerial photos are now gone and instead replaced by some kind of horrible processed hybrid image. This is of little or n