[Link] How Google finally mapped North Korea
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Under what license are those "community contributions"?
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I think streetview is gonna be a little tough though
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Streetview has not much to see, though they achieved to smuggle in a forerunner:
https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/ What comes next?(And to continue my previous comment: If I chose to contribute work/efforts for free, I'd choose a project where the efforts stay openly licensed up in all time. Google overdoes it in exploiting open communities, promoting MapMaker as a (pseudo)open project although it has a proprietary license.)
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... which is why the model where "millions of users freely modeling Google Earth manually with SketchUp" was a losing model.
We are fortunate that Google did not shelve SketchUp, and sold it to Trimble.
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