Re: [Flightgear-devel] Willfully violating Google Terms of Use under the FlightGear umbrella ?

[Torsten D. <To...@t3...>]

Am 12.03.2012 18:25, schrieb And...@gm...:
> Hi, I'm the one who asked about the legal situation of using elevation
> data from a topographic map.
>
> http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15711&p=152972&sid=0383829e2324ecb1bc0c0ed67655e826#p152945
>
> I checked with the institution that provides these maps and they said
> they're _not_ free for me to use for scenery modelling.
>
> Now I have some more questions:
> 1. Is it legal to model an aircraft using a flight manual, or a flight
> test data sheet?
> 2. Would it significantly improve the accuracy of the terrain model if I
> built it using SRTM-3 or CORINE data, or is the elevation data of the
> standard scenery already based on this data?

I don't think there is a need to discuss this in two places, the forum 
and here. The legal questions here have been discussed before, no need 
to start from scratch.

Torsten