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Hi guys, whats going on? I have been thinking of a way to make a little extra cash lately, and I think I have an idea. I can make high quality scenery addons, with custom buildings and photo scenery, corrected airport, ect. , and sell it. I know what your thinking, "that's called payware dummy!". But the catch in that plan is that I could sell it for only one dollar. I can integrate it right into a Blogger.com blog using Google Checkout. I was also thinking about having the option to have a airport personally designed for someone for say, five dollars, or even less. I know it sounds kind of foolish, but if I advertise it on YouTube, here, and other sim websites, I think I may be able to get even a little bit of money. Even if I only got 50 downloads per week off of the entire website, that's still 50 bucks more than I am making now! (I'm a freshman in high school, ei. young) Thanks ahead of time for your opinions! You don't have to right a novel either, just say good idea or bad idea.

I'm not completely sure.

What satellite imagery would you be able to access that you could legally sell?

What satellite imagery would you be able to access that you could legally sell?

Bing lets you get a special license that as long as you dont sell a taxable amount (I forget the cap) its fine. 

What satellite imagery would you be able to access that you could legally sell?

I read somewhere in the FSDevelopers Forum that if you edit the image, which I must do to make the blend mask for the photo scenery, the image becomes unique and yours. i'm not sure of the validity of this statement, but it sounds ok.

[quote]I'm not completely sure.

What satellite imagery would you be able to access that you could legally sell?

I read somewhere in the FSDevelopers Forum that if you edit the image, which I must do to make the blend mask for the photo scenery, the image becomes unique and yours. i'm not sure of the validity of this statement, but it sounds ok.

i'm not sure that's such a good idea.  Depends on how much editing you do I'd guess.

What satellite imagery would you be able to access that you could legally sell?

I read somewhere in the FSDevelopers Forum that if you edit the image, which I must do to make the blend mask for the photo scenery, the image becomes unique and yours. i'm not sure of the validity of this statement, but it sounds ok.

i'm not sure that's such a good idea.

Bing lets you get a special license that as long as you dont sell a taxable amount (I forget the cap) its fine. 

I'll have to look into that...never heard about that. 

I read somewhere in the FSDevelopers Forum that if you edit the image, which I must do to make the blend mask for the photo scenery, the image becomes unique and yours. i'm not sure of the validity of this statement, but it sounds ok.

Simply adding a blend map is not even modifying the original image, since the blend mask is not part of the original image. (you use the original to draw the blend mask, but it doesn't involve changing the image) Changing the coloring, removing cars on the street, etc would be making it unique and yours.

[quote][quote]Bing lets you get a special license that as long as you dont sell a taxable amount (I forget the cap) its fine.

The only thing I will comment on is the advertising. Before you do any advertising here, you would have to get Pete's permission.

The only thing I will comment on is the advertising. Before you do any advertising here, you would have to get Pete's permission.

Yep

The only thing I will comment on is the advertising. Before you do any advertising here, you would have to get Pete's permission.

Very good, when I get everything up and running I will ask for his permission.