Re: [udig-devel] Fwd: Using Google Earth in uDig

[Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Answer is, you cannot get Google Earth imagery legally into uDig,  
though you could write a tiling renderer that hit the GEarth tile  
cache directly, in contravention of their terms of use.

There are a couple alternives:

- There are no restrictions on the LandSat tilecaches that WorldWind  
uses, so a renderer that pulled those tiles in could be written  
(richard?).  This would go down to a 30m pixel resolution.
- There are some loose restrictions on the Microsoft livelocal tiles  
(noncommercial only, I think) which go down to very high res in urban  
areas.  Again a renderer could be written that pulled these tiles  
(richard?)

Paul

On 26-Oct-06, at 10:29 AM, Matthias Basler wrote: