Your comments, however relevant, do not invalidate my points to Selvan.
Those companies that you accurately suggest, leverage publicly funded base
data as a foundation for their products, do however, in fact invest tens of
millions of dollars yearly to improve [in every way] that publicly funded
base data. So, their equities are certainly important, and yes, of course,
they make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and so what of
it ? The point of the original post was that Selvan wanted to extract
proprietary information from a FREE service provided by commercial entities
(ie. Google, Digital Globe, NAVTEQ, etc.) and NOT seek to get that
information from public agencies. Thanks for pointing Selvan in a direction
where he can get the data he seeks.
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 J Bee
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:54 AM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> 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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