[Qgis-user] offline googlemaps (or the like) images

[Mike]

I think using google images would violate google's TOS or something like it.
There may be other imagery that you can use - not sure about Yahoo as they
are the background for the OSM potlach.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Vincent Schut <schut at sarvision.nl> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I'm going to do some fieldwork in some pretty remote places, and I'd like
> to use qgis (combined with the qgismapper plugin to match my gps and
> photo's). What I'd really like to have, is some highres background imagery,
> like the satellite layer from googlemaps. Anyone knows of a way/tool to
> fetch a predifined area of this (or another service which provides highres
> background imagery) as a georeferenced image, so I can use it offline as a
> background layer while gps-wardriving the swamps of Borneo?
>
> Thanks for any tips!
>
> Vincent.
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