In China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Iraq, and Sierra Leone. By extension, it is illegal everywhere. Individuals running Freenet Servers will be interned in re-education camps.
Anybody can use thermal imaging - it got some use in the 80's for energy conservation...contractors would scan a house and use it to detect heat leaks.
The Supreme Court got this right in terms of privacy, wrong in terms of science. Once again, a complex case turns on a fine point of law.
Socio-economic/political data like boundaries, districts, and streets is geographic. If location is involved, its geographic, regardless of the type of content. Even zipe codes and phone numbers have a geographic component, although most people deal with them only as tabular or attribute data.
As far as using the socio-economic data, most of it is in a vector format. GRASS, the most popular Free GIS, deals mostly with image/raster data.
Your webserver serves whatever you want, then it is parsed by the browser, which adds links that microsoft wants to add to the page. You put text criticizing Company A, Microsoft adds a link to company A. You mention the Opera or Konqueror browser, and Microsoft turns the word browser into a link for IE6.
but a collection of latitude and longitude coordinates. Yet surely a map can be copyright. When one draws a particular set of coordinates from the infinite universe of possibilities, it acquires a uniqueness that makes it the work of one person or group. Surely the limited, fairly select set described by those that geocache can be a personal work, worthy of protection from cheaters, spoilers, and those that tell little children there is no Santa Claus.
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In China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Iraq, and Sierra Leone. By extension, it is illegal everywhere. Individuals running Freenet Servers will be interned in re-education camps.
Not gonna work - it will end up being used only for laws shared by two countries.
what happens when pasta and antipasta collide in your stomach??
Anybody can use thermal imaging - it got some use in the 80's for energy conservation...contractors would scan a house and use it to detect heat leaks.
The Supreme Court got this right in terms of privacy, wrong in terms of science. Once again, a complex case turns on a fine point of law.
Socio-economic/political data like boundaries, districts, and streets is geographic. If location is involved, its geographic, regardless of the type of content. Even zipe codes and phone numbers have a geographic component, although most people deal with them only as tabular or attribute data.
As far as using the socio-economic data, most of it is in a vector format. GRASS, the most popular Free GIS, deals mostly with image/raster data.
Your webserver serves whatever you want, then it is parsed by the browser, which adds links that microsoft wants to add to the page. You put text criticizing Company A, Microsoft adds a link to company A. You mention the Opera or Konqueror browser, and Microsoft turns the word browser into a link for IE6.
but a collection of latitude and longitude coordinates. Yet surely a map can be copyright. When one draws a particular set of coordinates from the infinite universe of possibilities, it acquires a uniqueness that makes it the work of one person or group. Surely the limited, fairly select set described by those that geocache can be a personal work, worthy of protection from cheaters, spoilers, and those that tell little children there is no Santa Claus.