<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Grant Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 23 November 2010 13:23, Grant Slater <<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 23 November 2010 13:04, Ed Avis <<a href="mailto:eda@waniasset.com">eda@waniasset.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> As always, the standard reality check applies: if you believe that maps or the<br>
>> data they represent are not covered by copyright, please start large-scale<br>
>> photocopying of some commercial maps, or copying the information from them into<br>
>> another format that you then publish.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Here is some data:<br>
><br>
> <node id="915100779" lat="51.5798222" lon="-0.3341762" version="2"<br>
> changeset="6058195" user="Walter Schlögl" uid="78656" visible="true"<br>
> timestamp="2010-10-16T14:40:13Z"><br>
> <tag k="name" v="McDonald's"/><br>
> <tag k="amenity" v="fast_food"/><br>
> <tag k="cuisine" v="burger"/><br>
> </node><br>
><br>
> The position is a fact, name is a fact, cuisine they serve is a fact,<br>
> along with the other details.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>If you think the position of this restaurant is a fact then you really need to watch the Horizon documentary where Alan Davis tries to measure the length of a piece of string: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv</a><br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
> Facts cannot be copyright. Creative Commons licences are not designed<br>
> for factual information. <br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">><br>
> Creativity is used in the above data.<br>
<br>
</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Typo, creativity is *NOT* used in the above data.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
>Whereas on the rendered map<br>
> <a href="http://tile.osm.org/18/130828/87084.png" target="_blank">http://tile.osm.org/18/130828/87084.png</a> I would argue that creativity<br>
> has been used to choose the icon, position the text/icon and create<br>
> the "halo" around the text/icon, which is all contained in the mapnik<br>
> stylesheet.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
> Grant<br>
><br>
<br>
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