Cari tutti, vi giro un interessante messaggio appena spedito alla lista generale gislit.
Anthony: I took the liberty of relaying your interesting posting to an Italian mailing list on free/open-source software.
se qualcuno avesse bisogno di traduzioni, non fatele in automatico 
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Anthony Quartararo <ajq3@spatialnetworks.com>
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List, While we continue to research this and attempt to get the straight n skinny from the aforementioned service providers, hereâs a question that is puzzling us: When a 3rd party content provider splashes their location content on Google Maps (for example, but the question applies to all the above), what part of the content gets transmitted to Googleâs servers? Stated differently, is it possible, probable or otherwise reality, that Google can passively capture the X,Y values of content, as well as all other attributes of a content database (such as address, phone, fax, digital picture, etc.) that the 3rd party content owner displays on Googleâs maps ? For example, there is a neat company in Europe called Panoramio, they provide a way for members to upload digital pictures along with captions, etc. of places they visit, to a photo sharing site. They also provide a way to locate those pictures on Google Maps / Earth, and essentially, the coordinates are then affixed to the digital photo to show the location of the picture on demand when it is viewed by the general public. Now, is it possible that this digital photograph (which is by nature, copyrighted) is retained or otherwise âaddedâ to Googleâs digital content collection by the act of displaying the picture over Google Maps using Google Maps site ? Google may say that it does not own the content, and in fact there are legal issues here, but I am seeking a technical answer of âis it possible or notâ, and if not by Google, is it possible by an army of others, that perhaps have little moral or legal obstacles to pirating proprietary geospatial (or other) content from internet-based sites like Google, Yahoo Maps, VE, etc. ? What prevents the provider (google) or other 3rd parties from reverse engineering a content database and claiming it as their own ? Best Regards, Anthony Quartararo Spatial NetWorks, Inc. âgeography: the science of everythingâ |
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