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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] lat/long for hotels/Buildings from google earth
intoexcel spreadsheet |
| Date: |
10/13/2006 08:55:00 AM |
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J Bee |
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I can't help but to think your point about how "other's have paid millions of dollars" to create location datasets is a little over the top.
The reality is that many of these vendors you refer to routinley acquire free data from local, state, and federal government agencies who create taxpayer funded landmark datasets (including schools, hotels, churches, shopping malls, etc). These agencies provide data free to the general public, including for profit vendoirs. This free, to very low cost data includes not only points, but street centerlines, aerial imagery, etc.
In my home county, the county auditor's office has stated that they are routinely contacted by TeleAtlas, Navteq, etc., for datasets, only to have this information incorporated into their own for profit business.
Another view of this situation is that "others" have MADE millions, not paid millions from taxpayer funded geographic information.
So, I agree that Selvan's request may have been innocent, and suggest that rather than trying to pull this information from Google (which sounds like an easier way to acquire data), instead, contact local or state agencies that have datasets readily available for download (or for purchase at very low cost).
Bob
Anthony Quartararo <ajq3@spatialnetworks.com> wrote:
As far as I know, this would be a violation of copyrights of the respective
data content owners (those that own the rights to the hotels, resorts, etc.)
a violation of the Google Earth terms of use, and generally an illegal
practice. The implications of your question, while perhaps innocent enough,
indicate some desire to export and create a database of locations for
Magnasoft's purpose that other's have paid millions of dollars to create,
and you want to try and leverage the relatively inexpensive G.E. application
to short-cut the path to a "new" database of points of interest.
Best Regards,
Anthony Quartararo
Spatial NetWorks, Inc.
"geography: the science of everything"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Selvan
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:36 AM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Cc: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
> Subject: [gislist] lat/long for hotels/Buildings from google
> earth intoexcel spreadsheet
>
>
> Hi ! Folks,
>
> I am back again with a ?.I would like to know, if there is a
> way to extract different feature information such as address,
> lat/long location from google for hotel/resort/schools,for
> different countries Eg.India, USA, UK, Australia.
>
> Any help will be widely appreciated!!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kalai Selvan.
> www.magnasoft.com
>
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