How does the service provided by norc.ro compare with people's desires? http://www.norc.ro/
Cheers, Joseph 2009/5/13 Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM, John McKerrell <j...@mckerrell.net> wrote: >> >> On 13 May 2009, at 15:00, Rory McCann wrote: >>> >>> StreetView data would be awesome to have, since it would massivly >>> increase the amount of information we could add. Footpaths, speedlimits, >>> number of lanes, etc etc, Theses are things you can't get from aerial >>> imagery. >> >> I imagine that even if Google "made available" the StreetView imagery or >> data through an API the license would still be relatively restrictive. Look >> at the license for the maps released from Google Map Maker for instance >> (non-commercial use only). > > The engineers I have spoken with said that they want to release it > specifically so that organizations like OSM can use it. This would infer > that the license would be open enough for OSM. > >> >> As such I think that it's still likely that many of us would want to >> create our own alternative. > > Agreed. Beyond the legal issues it's still a very technically interesting > project. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
