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Rick Celik

Rick Celik

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Hi i want to use google earth for my sattelite image on my airport which is freeware but i heard you cannot use the images due to copyright or somthing like that i am confused.Can somone comfirm this for me? if so then where can i buy my sattelite images from or get them free remebering that i am doing Sydney Airport in Australia.
 
The eternal question.....

Feel lucky that you have good overhead images at all. In Ireland, I have to deal with 1960's images and manually draw stuff instead.

Yes, there are copyright issues if you use Googles images. However, I know of many that have used the images for freeware releases (not payware).

I'll put this simply. We are not lawyers...
 
Even for freeware it is not allowed if you read the EULA. But as Nick said we are not lawyers, so we could have an endless discussion on this without reaching a final answer :).

Where you can buy images is different for each country, so it is hard to tell you that.
 
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