[GRASS-user] Digitizing from or converting Google Earth maps

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Daniel Victoria wrote:

> Regarding the use of Google Maps for digitizing, I just bumped into
> another site stating the permissions. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure I
> understood everything correctly. But from the site, I could not find
> anything prohibiting the use of Google Maps to digitize things 'not for
> profit'.

Daniel,

Almost all terms of use prohibit 'for profit' use. By this they almost
always mean reselling the content, not using it in a context where it is, as
in this instance, background for a map and the use is not reselling the
background alone.

> Of course, I could be wrong...

Of course. :-)

> As for your other question, about using v.digit, I'm afraid I can't give
> much help.

This was actually the point of my original post. I'll keep futzing and work
out a process that perhaps I can optimize over time.

Regards,

Rich