I have been looking into the DigitalGlobe permissions situation, since their posting of the highly detailed before & after pix includes language restricting alteration of their photos and I wanted to post jpeg images he created using the overlay http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/92563/page/0/vc/1 in the Typepad album I created yesterday (http://www.kathryncramer.com/photos/new_orleans_flooding/index.html), mostly composed of the jpegs Shawn provided me with.

Here's what I wrote to Shawn:

"Google Earth is an authorized reseller of DigitalGlobe satellite maps (see http://www.digitalglobe.com/resellers/resellers_us.shtml). Can you (by which I mean the collective You) contact GE customer support and see if you can get some kind of blanket authorization for this general kind of alteration of DG's maps? I was going to write to DG directly asking for blanket permission, but that may not be necessary."

(I can't, by the way, use GE myself until GE releases their promised Mac edition, since we're a Mac household.)

Kathryn