(sorry, i didnt finish see changes below.)<div><br></div><div>- 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 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a>). </div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div>
<div>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 <i>some</i> license agreements.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jon</div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I believe academic use would be classified as non-commercial, and would therefore fall under the Free / Personal Community license (see here <a href="http://www.nearmap.com/products/community-licence" target="_blank">http://www.nearmap.com/products/community-licence</a>).<div>
<br></div><div>The 'Free / Personal Community' license must be adhered to by the following: </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Francis Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fmarkham@gmail.com" target="_blank">fmarkham@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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"><div><div></div><div>On 12 November 2010 12:54, Jonathan Nagy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnagy.82@gmail.com" target="_blank">jnagy.82@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div><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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