<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div>Google, Yahoo, .... don't match in a lot of cases. Google uses Tele Atlas data which is obviously derived from same sources as Tiger and often completely outdated, in wrong places ....</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 1 Feb 2009, at 13:36 , Ian Dees wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hilton Long said:<br> > Tiger line files are incomplete, especially as regards streets in new<br> > developments. It's possible to draw the streets from Yahoo imagery. But<br> > where to get the names? Must they come off of street signs? Is it a<br> > violation of copyright to take the names (and ONLY the names) from Google,<br> > Yahoo, or Microsoft Maps?<br> <br> It is absolutely a violation of copyright to take street names from<br> copyright maps.</blockquote><div><br>That's incorrect. As discussed previously on one of the other OSM e-mail lists [1], the US Supreme Court ruled long ago [2] that facts are not copyrightable. Street names are not copyrightable because they are facts. Google Maps and similar do not add any creative spark specifically to street names so the street names are not copyrightable. On the other hand, the street centerline data is copyrightable because Google is adding a spark of creativity to the factual data.<br> <br>[1] <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/newbies@openstreetmap.org/msg00502.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/newbies@openstreetmap.org/msg00502.html</a><br>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service</a><br> </div></div> _______________________________________________<br>Talk-us mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>