[Legal-general] The elephant in the room

[Gustav Foseid]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<ivan at sanchezortega.es>wrote:

> > No, probably not creative, but again bordering on a database.
>
> I know of mapping agencies that do believe that it's creative work.
>

The most authorative source I have found, is a norwegian PhD thesis (Steinar
Taubøll: Rettigheter til geografiske data), which I have only read an
excerpt from, seems conclude that this is not the case. (I really need to
get my hands on a copy of the entire thesis.


[...]

> > Would then a OSM surveyor extract a substantial part of
> > this database after surveying street names in the entire municipality?
>
> Yes.


In whioch case, there is not a single street name added legally to OSM.
There has to be a flaw in that argument?

 - Gustav
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