[OSM-legal-talk] Atlas publishing software (legal-talk angle)
OJW
streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk
Mon Mar 5 20:26:52 GMT 2007
Somebody mentioned on this list that nobody would make a book or atlas from
OSM data unless they get exclusive copyright to it, which sounded like a
rather old-fashioned idea in the world of on-demand publishing, international
mapping projects, and print bureaus worldwide who accept emailed PDFs.
I'm not entirely sure why it's a choice between restrictively-licensed
products, and no products at all. But I guess selling free-to-copy things
isn't as much fun as selling illegal-to-copy things?
People have also mentioned that OSM isn't about creative outputs, which is
weird when most of what we do is map images, road atlases, wikipedia
articles, featured images on the wiki, posters, cartography conferences, city
websites, and loads of other things that can only be described as creative
work.
So to give a boost to anyone considering Creative-Commons publishing of OSM
data, I've done a PDF-generation tool for formatting our maps ready for
print. See the email on talk-list, or a wiki page will soon appear at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/ImgAtlas
It even keeps track of the images you add and puts an list of attributions at
the end with licensing information. So Geograph images, flickr images and
such like should be easy to integrate, as should data from any other
Creative-Commons project.
Regards,
OJW
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