<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olov McKie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olov@mckie.se" target="_blank">olov@mckie.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
1. If we present an OSM map to the user let them click on the map and use the coordinates they clicked on as part of the meta-data for a place in our application, will the resulting database be considered a derived database? To clarify, we would not extract any information from the map, beside the coordinates that the user clicked on, they would by themselves navigate the map to for example London and then click somewhere in London.<br>
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I was expecting this to be OK. If I were to use my old paperback world atlas to find the latitude and longitude of different places around the world, and then store those coordinates along with an awful lot of other information in a database, in no way would I expect whoever wrote that atlas to have copyright claims on my database. I see this as fair use of the atlas and I see the use of an application showing a map where the user clicks on the map as equivalent to an atlas and was therefor not expecting this to be an issue. As some of you see this as copying would I like to ask sub questions:
<br></blockquote><div> <br><br></div><div>You're letting users pinpoint locations on a map created using OSM data.<br><br></div><div>How is this different from tracing roads and buildings from a map created using OSM data?<br>
<br></div><div>I think most people agree that such tracing indeed creates derivative data based on the OSM database. And I think it makes no difference if the tracing is on a point by point basis or via lines or polygons.<br>
<br>So my opinion is that those coordinates should be licensed under the ODbL.<br></div></div></div></div>