[Gdal-dev] Google Earth Data retrieval

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 18:00, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
> > That said, much like other copyrighted media, if you
> > are using the extracted
> > images strictly for private, unpublished,
> > noncommercial uses, you probably
> > won't get prosecuted.  It's still technically
> > illegal, of course.  Perhaps
> > you could share what use you had in mind for the
> > 'retrieved' images.
>
> I know about Copyright Ben. That's exactly our case. I
> work in a mobile phone company and we use MapServer to
> display our network. Sometimes, the planning engineers
> want to see  where is the antennas are located, and
> satelite image is so good for this. I could integrate
> my application with Google Earth probably, but I
> thought maybe somebody had managed to retrieve the
> images so I could integrate easily into my app. We
> will be using it for private use, just like we can use
> now Google Earth as standalone application.

If you only need Satellite images you might want to have a look at the landsat 
and NASA Images which are also used in gpsdrive.

-
Joerg