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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] lat/long for hotels/Buildings from google
earthintoexcel spreadsheet |
| Date: |
10/15/2006 11:10:00 PM |
| From: |
Selvan |
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thanks Bob,
That sounds good..
Regards,
Selvan...
----- Original Message -----
From: "J Bee" <mapcmon@yahoo.com>
To: <gislist@lists.geocomm.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gislist] lat/long for hotels/Buildings from google
earthintoexcel spreadsheet
>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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