[WikiEN-l] Was: Google Earth screenshots

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 11/24/06, Michiel Sikma <michiel at thingmajig.org> wrote:
>
> Op 24-nov-2006, om 14:51 heeft Thomas Dalton het volgende geschreven:
>
> > Some people will upload them without paying any attention to the
> > category - as the category won't affect them, we can ignore them when
> > considering the benefits of making the category. Other people will see
> > the category and upload more images - that's the main affect the
> > category will have, so that's what we need to consider.
>
> I think that the goal of the images should be put into consideration.
> Isn't it better conduct to categorize "satellite photos" as opposed
> to "images from Google Earth"? This would allow people to put free
> images in the category as well. I don't really see the use of
> categorizing images from Google Earth, because they aren't any more
> or less useful than equivalents from other sources.
>
> PS: I'm new to this list, and haven't seen the beginning of this
> discussion, so my apologies if this is off-topic or besides the point.
>
> Michiel Sikma <michiel at thingmajig.org>
> Web designer and programmer
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There's no reason why [[Category:Google Maps images]] cannot be a
subcategory of both
[[Category:Fair use images]] and [[Category:Satellite images]]