[OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Wed Dec 17 16:11:24 GMT 2008


On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:25, Sascha Silbe wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +0000, Peter Miller wrote:
>
>> There is not however a problem as far as I know in  people  
>> collecting their own timetable information from printed  material  
>> and entering it into a common DV.
> I haven't collected anything yet since I fear the data might be  
> protected under the new database "copyright" in the EU. Would be  
> interesting to get a lawyers opinion on that.
>

I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport  
authority took a person to court for promoting their services but  
there may be a first time! I do suggest that this is a different  
project from OSM though.


Regards,



Peter

> CU Sascha
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