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/
Hi,
Natural Earth is totally separate from Google and the terms of use are
at https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ - that data is
public domain.
Please understand that I won't answer all of your questions regarding
copyrights of specific data sources. You can use Google just
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 wrote:
> Hi Hamish,
>
> Yes, copyright has to be taken into account for any data sources you use
> in your QGIS
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
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
Hi Hamish,
Il 31/03/20 09:34, Hamish Macdonald ha scritto:
> 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
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
