2 responses to “3D London and more Google Earth goodies”
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The really important thing here though is that it’s done with *public money* (local London governments), yet the public can’t view it.
Why? Because of Crown copyright – specifically, the Ordnance Survey’s licensing, which doesn’t let this be put on a website without all sorts of pay-per-click restrictions.
Which means that people who could benefit, like all of us, can’t benefit.
It’s a classic, and classically stupid, bind that “crown copyright” creates. Which is why the Free Our Data campaign (http://www.freeourdata.org.uk) keeps going on about it. It would be so nice if other people realised how shortchanged we are by the requirement for the OS to make a “profit” – by restricting the public’s wider use of mapping data that we could all benefit from.
As it happens, this story is our FOD piece in Thursday’s edition. Stay tuned..
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hi
Today I downloaded Google Earth and saw chicago city through this. It was a amazing experience, which is very difficult to express in words. It seemed as if I am watching Places from top, sitting in a chopper. All I would like to say that everyone must see this software atleast once. http://www.earth-maps-3d.com
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