<div dir="ltr"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">Dear All,</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">
I would like you to have a look at my question I posted in the OSM forum yesterday. It is not an urgent matter, I'm duplicating it here as well because I would like to avoid any mistreatment of the OSM licenses.</p><p style="font-size:13px;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">
Below you can read my post from the forum, or just simply have a look at it in the forum itself: <a href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22948" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22948</a></p>
<div><br></div><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">Thanks in advance!</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">
Daniel</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">---- <br></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">
Dear All,</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">This might have been discussed several times, hence sorry for raising this question again, but I really would like to make sure that I'm in compliance with the rules of the OSM license. (Also, I'm not a programmer, so, sorry for formulating the details of my envisaged project with lack/inproper use of the programming jargon.)</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">So, here is the list of things I am planning to do:</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">I would like to create an artistic map<br>
1) <strong>based on OSM data</strong> - I would need a world map, with territories of countries and potentially subdivisions as well<br>2) <strong>I would alter the OSM data</strong> by defining new, custom subdivisions in certain areas, like cutting half a country (or continent, like Antarctica) not along any currently available "line", but according to my wish <br>
3) I would like to <strong>put copyrighted images</strong> onto these subdivisions (with OpenLayers)<br>4) I would <strong>remove uneccessary detail by not rendering some types of features</strong>, ie. I don't want any other data to be displayed on the map, but the original and custom-made subdivision borders and the images<br>
5) however, <strong>in the background I would like to still use the OSM data</strong>, so that users could search, eg. the address of their home, then the map would display the place where they live, but covered with the image I defined to cover that particular place with (ie. not displaying any roads etc.)<br>
6) I would expect volume of use too high to be supportable by OSM's tile servers, therefore I <strong>would have my own tile server</strong><br>7) Also, because of point 6, I <strong>would create separate, own search server</strong> as well, not to overwhelm Nominatim's servers (btw, I would really appreciate if you could help me with auto-complete search, is there any advanced solution already?)</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">So the end-result would look like this world map of flags, with the exception that I would make it available online as a dynamic map and in print as well:</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)"><span class=""><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag-map_of_the_world.svg/500px-Flag-map_of_the_world.svg.png" alt="500px-Flag-map_of_the_world.svg.png" style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 98%; margin: 7px 0.5em 7px 0px;"></span></p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">So, my questions are:<br>1) does this project qualify to be a <strong>produced work</strong> as defined in use case 2 of the license? <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases#Case_2:_I_want_to_publish_something_based_on_OSM_and_nothing_else" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(35,101,176)">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lice … thing_else</a><br>
2) if not, then <strong>which use case is the applicable here</strong>?<br>3) in either case, what are the <strong>consequences of the license to my rights over parts of the project</strong> (database, separate copyrighted images and the overall look of the map)? what should be shared freely? Can I reserve the right to the overall image of the map to be sold eg. as a printed poster?<br>
4) Also, does <strong>OpenLayers' license</strong> (in which I would define the new layer of images) interfere with this idea to be used for commercial use and reserve the rights for the end product?</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">
Sorry if the questions should be "super-obvious" based on the wikis/forum etc., they aren't really self-explanatory for me! <img src="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" style="vertical-align: text-top;"></p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:7px 0px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(252,253,254)">Thank you very much in advance! <br>Best regards,<br>
underclover</p></div>