Great work Jonathon. I was wondering if anyone knows about the licensing terms of nearmap in an academic / research context?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Francis Markham<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 November 2010 12:54, Jonathan Nagy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnagy.82@gmail.com">jnagy.82@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Until the original author pulls in my changes, you can download the plugin and install it from here: <a href="https://github.com/TheGeoist/qgis-openlayers-plugin" target="_blank">https://github.com/TheGeoist/qgis-openlayers-plugin</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><i>Note: you must operate within the 900913 projection, with on-the-fly transformations.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Comments are welcome from those of you who can appreciate it.</div><div><br></div>
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