I bought the Carrion Hill PDF (see my Middenstone question!) and will start DMing it this weekend. We will be joining the throng of folks using Google Wave to do this.
There is a service there you may or may not have heard of that incorporates GoogleMaps style maps (pins, zoomable images, etc) with your own images and you can put them in a Google Wave. People have made these awesome free apps for Google Wave that lets you put an image in there and, for instance, lay out NPCs/PCs, drag them around, put pins ("I search THIS bookcase"), etc.
Where I'm going with this is to do this I have to upload the image I want to use to the maplib service (http://www.maplib.net/). Someone has already uploaded the Golarion map here (http://www.maplib.net/map.php?id=7133)! If you click on that, you can zoom around down to very fine detail on the map. If I add that to my Wave with this app, I can add pins ("We are starting here, in Ustalav!").
Finally my point (apologies): Is this legal? I don't want to piss you guys off but I'd love to cut up dungeons from the PDF (using screencapture tools and Gimp), upload them to maplib, and then use them in my campaign . . . but are those images copyrighted or are they OGL? And more importantly, since this is so cool, would you even care?
For editors out there reading this, if you want to see this in action (if you haven't already), private message or email me (I'm sure you can get my email from the forum login) and I'd be happy to add you to the Wave so you can see the thing in action.
Thanks!
Chief Technical Officer
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Our Community Use Policy is the place to look for this sort of thing. The only maps that are available for redistribution under the Community Use Policy are the World Map and any maps that have been published on the Paizo Blog.