<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2011 19:06, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2011/9/28 Nathan Edgars II <<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com">neroute2@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote:<br>
>> Is it only usable, when there<br>
>> is no copyright sign written on the plan?<br>
><br>
> Almost everything is copyrighted by default. So the question is whether the<br>
> information contained within can still be used (as with a road sign or the<br>
> sign on the front of a building). Unfortunately I can't answer this.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As people have said, in most countries almost everything is copyrighted without needing a copyright note. The copyright note jut makes it easier to know on who's time the plan was made (a surveying/graphics/safety/architect company is likely to be the copyright owner not the employee who drew it on company time or the building managment that bought the physical print out), and thus who to ask for permission to use it(or derive data from it) in OpenStreetMap.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Your project sounds interesting though.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if it fits into the scope and ability of OpenStreetMap. I consider paths through buildings only suitable to add to the degree of showing how you roughly how entrances connect (e.g. walking through a shopping mall could be a shortcut, but some entrances may have steps inside). And OpenStreetMap isn't good(yet) for multiple layers/stories of buildings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When you've got some way into your PhD, it might be nice if you were to submit a paper to the State of the Map(SotM) conference. This year SotM-Europe was very academia focused, and I'd like there to be a prominent academia track at the main SotM next year. I think calls for papers open some time between March-May. <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sotm">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sotm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>In the mean time, we have a wiki page for academic research. <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research</a> Please be welcome to edit that page without asking, to add you project details. I even added my project with the title "(in progress)" so people could read the description and know some work was being done on the subject.</div>
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