On 26 November 2010 08:57, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent. The thought does occur that if one used "source=bing", and > started tracing now, and for some reason the legal agreement didn't > eventuate, it would be easy to simply wipe all that data. But that > would be making life complicated, I suppose.
It's quite possible that they might end up saying - yes it can be done, but not in certain areas, or some similar restriction. They get imagery from a range of suppliers, and would have to check that they are not breaking any contracts by allowing this. If they got to the point where they had agreement for a large portion of the world, they may decide to proceed in those areas without waiting for the remainder to be sorted out. I've had a look at some areas in Queensland - not as detailed as the nearmap imagery, but pretty good, and covers at least some areas I'm interested in that nearmap doesn't. I did a quick check on the roads layer, and they have some of the same non-existent roads marked that Google maps and my GPS do, so they must all be sourcing it from the same database. I suspect the roads may have been gazetted, but never built. And not likely to either, the terrain is terrible for a road, and there's no need for it. Stephen _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
