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Google Earth good reference

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eheheh

Nice reference but few parts of world are good covered. But my city is included :rotfl:
 
i have a great idea, but unfortunately don't know how to do it. It's pretty simple, taking images out of google and stacking them to make photo scenery. Problem is, how to attach images to ground (image to go over hills, not under them etc...) so you don't lose any of the relief (ground - hills, mountains, forts etc) detail while inserting them. So if anyone has an idea how to do it using gmax, or any other tool, it would be great...
 
Had this idea for my EDDF scenery too. Unfortunately, the whole airport isn't covered and there are many clouds above the area. Also, you have to remove this "Copyright Google 2005" thing, if you want a good underground.
 
That's why I had in mind :censored: function of my all-famous :censored: :), but is it legal?
Also, my airport (lybe Belgrade) is not included in hi-res at all, just some gibberish-like-food-package colors... but city core... that's what I had in mind, at least for starters... They've had luck when taking images, not a single cloud in the sky, just clear crisp hi-res imagery... priceless...

P.S. I also had in mind copyright info... Will I (or anybody else) be allowed to do this, or is it really Google-protected... How will they even know that this imagery is done via Google earth...?
They'll know, I know it, for sure... Big brother's watching'...
 
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Hi,

I think the copyright issue would indeed be the biggest problem. I did not check the Google site, but I am pretty sure that they will not allow you to use it for other purposes then viewing it for your personal use :). So if you want to release your scenery (even as freeware) I think you would have to buy the photos or so.

The technical part of placing them is not really hard. You could do it with resample or a tool like SBuilder. If you use the mesh techniques, they will follow the DEM data nicely.
 
what u can do is if u have a digiatl camara...take a picture of the screen to leave out the copyright...then use your picture for scenery
 
Hi all.

The Google images are copyrighted and watermarked to prevent their redistribution. It is illegal to use these images as sources for photoreal scenery. Google has paid for these images.

If you really want to use them, you'd need to contact Google for permission. That's not only the legal course, but the ethical course as well.

I'm a little surprised a thread about stealing their images is even allowed on the forum.

Dick
 
new designers...update your thinking please

Folks, it sounds to me like some of you may be new to the scenery design world, if so, please note that sensitivity to legal rights of source data is the norm here.

so, when someone is concerned about the watermark, the only answer would be how to buy those images from Google or to use a different source that was free. Answers that explain how to "remove" the watermark are off the mark.

Best to all,

Bob Bernstein
 
my thread by no means was meant to be used for nothing more then personal use and not to be distributed....should of said that before

dave
 
Hm...should have written in my post, that removing this copyright isn't allowed. Of course Google paid for these images and so should we, if we use them. Shame on me, not to make this clear. :(

But I think, you can use this service for getting information about the size and position of buildings without "stealing" the images

Currently, I'm checking out the D-SAT Professional Version. It covers Germany and maybe EDDF is available in a good quality on these discs. When purchasing the professional edition, you are allowed to use the imagery in your projects, even in payware.
 
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I think the copyright point has been made clear enough by now :).

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I'm a little surprised a thread about stealing their images is even allowed on the forum.
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To this I would like to add that I can not read the forum all day long and every minute. So if you think you see a post that should not be on the forum, please warn the moderator of that forum. In that case we can act sooner. Use the "report bad post" option of the forum for this. You can find it as a red triangle with an exclamation mark.
 
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I'm a little surprised a thread about stealing their images is even allowed on the forum.
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I don't see that this thread talks about stealing images from Google, it's just what-if thread, pointing what could easily be done, not telling others to do it, or telling them how to do it. I am aware of the possible consequences, thus I’m not doing it at all.

P.S. Arno is also human being and he can't be here all day monitoring every single post for no-no’s and can't-dos. As he said, if you find anything that disturbs you about my or other posts, click the red triangle...
 
The discussion above had devolved into a thread about removing Google's copyright watermark and using the images for photoreal use. This is something Google prohibits.

I'm aware that Arno has limited time to review all the many post here. Perhaps I could have been a bit more subtle, but this is a public forum, and public postings inherently invite a response. That was my response.

Dick
 
Of course everybody is free to post his response. And it is good to see that the forum corrects itself when dealing with copyrights.

For now I think enough has been said about this topic, so I'll close it now.
 
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