Re: Bug#400070: RFP: gaia -- Google Earth client

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:39:42PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Fabricio \"aybabtu\" Cannini]
> > Call it a n00b question (ok, it IS a n00b question :) , but if the
> > whole problem is about google's data, why don't google GPLs the
> > program (google earth) ?
> 
It's _not_ Google's data in some sense: the letter from the Google 
engineer that is quoted at the site which held gaia source code and 
binaries is (fairly) clear. The data Google Earth uses is licensed from 
content providers under fairly restrictive terms and at considerable 
cost to Google - hence the EULA. It's not Google's data and they don't 
have all the rights necessary to give it away unreservedly - so it comes 
down to use of data _NOT_ use of Google Earth API's.

The API's for Google Earth are published - as the Google chap says, go 
and use the expertise within gaia on more publicly available data e.g. 
the NASA datasets used by the NASA program.

> It might be a naive question, but I suspect there are better chances
> of getting a real answer to it by asking the developers at Google, and
> not this list. :)
> 
See above :)

All the best,

Andy