[Novalug] [OT] Google takes heat for using pre-Katrina imagery

[Rich Goodwin]

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 12:35 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:30:49AM -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> >I thought the untimate source of the google images was NASA.
> 
> No. The google imagery with the best resolution comes from airplanes 
> flown by private companies who sell the pictures to places like google 
> or microsoft (among others).

IIRC there are license agreements for time periods where these can be
used as well.  So, if a license for a series of images "expires," then
it might be reasonable to revert to what is either on hand or reasonably
priced.  So, it could be a simple license agreement ... and we ALL know
how easy these things are!

Rich

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