Since Google Earth and similar are freely available for online viewing,
wouldn't it be possible to display a picture of the waypoint as long as the
unit is online?
Would be great if one could have cached it all for off line viewing, but I
understand this will violate copyrights.
Ramy
>________________________________
> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [Xcsoar-user] Display picture of landing sites in XCSoar
>
>Moin,
>
>well, it's not only hosting an image collection that makes a good landing site
>database. The most important part is to keep it up to date, to connect it to a
>landing field catalogue, add comments and verify proposed procedures that are
>rooted in real life experience.
>I know a lot of work has been put into this by various entities, especially in
>the alps, and is continuously put into ongoing maintenance.
>
>Viele Grüße,
>Martin Kopplow
>
>---
>
>Am 13.02.2012 um 21:32 schrieb Max Kellermann <[email protected]>:
>
>> On 2012/02/13 20:54, Tobias Bieniek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I just had a short mail conversation with Christian Hynek (the admin
>>> of streckenflug.at). He basically told me that they will not make
>>> their database available for the XCSoar users, or in general any
>>> non-LX/Naviter users.
>>
>> Of course a commercial vendor will not allow a free project to use its
>> data due to conflict of interest. The commercial entity will want to
>> protect its "killer feature", to be able to survive against XCSoar.
>>
>> Our answer should be: we build a new database, or we encourage people
>> to contribute to an existing free project (if there is one already).
>> The new free database should be free to use for non-commercial use.
>> One of the Creative Commons licenses should be suited for this.
>>
>> XCSoar has many thousands of active users (~ 10,000 on Android alone).
>> We should have much more manpower than all commercial vendors
>> combined.
>>
>> We should consider this a big chance, because streckenflug.at's
>> decision not to support us may be a very stupid decision for them: if
>> they would allow us to access to their database, we would depend on
>> their good will and licensing conditions forever. If we are forced to
>> build a free database now, we will be independent in the long run.
>>
>> The XCSoar project has liberated the software market, the next logical
>> step is to liberate databases.
>>
>> (Do photographers get paid by streckenflug.at when they assign their
>> copyright to the company? Are they aware that the company makes money
>> from their contributions?)
>>
>> Max
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