[Aust-NZ] qGIS - Nearmap Support

[Alister Hood]

Hi everyone,
Also, for commercial use it must not be "material to your business".
They define what this means, and give an example, but in some cases I
think it might be necessary to contact them to clarify where they draw
the line. 

Regards,
Alister

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Nagy
> Sent: Friday, 12 November 2010 4:25 p.m.
> To: Francis Markham; aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] qGIS - Nearmap Support
> 
> (sorry, i didnt finish see changes below.)
> 
> - any information derived from using the service (ie. research) is
> owned by you, and distribution of that information must be under a CC-
> BY-SA license (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
> 
> Even if your use was classified as commercial, the only restrictions
> that are added are that you don't exceed 100,000 tiles a month, or
> compete with the organization (paraphrasing).
> 
> Regardless of what I perceive the 'rules' to be, you should still have
> a read of the terms yourself.  Its a pretty light read compared to
some
> license agreements.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Nagy <jnagy.82 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	I believe academic use would be classified as non-commercial,
and
> would therefore fall under the Free / Personal Community license (see
> here http://www.nearmap.com/products/community-licence).
> 
> 	The 'Free / Personal Community' license must be adhered to by
the
> following:
> 
> 
> 
> 	On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Francis Markham
> <fmarkham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 		Great work Jonathon.  I was wondering if anyone knows
about
> the licensing terms of nearmap in an academic / research context?
> 
> 		Cheers,
> 
> 		Francis Markham
> 
> 
> 		On 12 November 2010 12:54, Jonathan Nagy
<jnagy.82 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 			If anyone out there is a qGIS user or dabbler,
I've
> forked the openlayers plugin that allows Google / Yahoo / OSM to be
> used as a backdrop layer.
> 
> 			For those of you that don't know, Nearmap is a
source of
> recently acquired high resolution Australian imagery with lax
licensing
> requirements.  My changes to the openlayers plugin include the ability
> to use Nearmap.com's growing imagery source as a backdrop layer within
> qGIS.
> 
> 			Until the original author pulls in my changes,
you can
> download the plugin and install it from here:
> https://github.com/TheGeoist/qgis-openlayers-plugin
> 
> 			Note: you must operate within the 900913
projection,
> with on-the-fly transformations.
> 
> 			Comments are welcome from those of you who can
> appreciate it.
> 
> 
> 			- Jonathan
> 
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