[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/12 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>:
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> 2009/8/12 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>
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>> That was one opinion there was other contradictory opinions given as well.
>> We aren't copying from maps but trying to map an observation that will be
>> very beneficial to others that come after us. It's just a question of how to
>> do this in the most informative matter without risking problems with
>> copyright.
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> The original point remains: this observation is based on easter eggs of
> copyrighted data. IANAL but it seems that it is very similar to the
> conclusions that were reached that data obtained from Google Maps is not
> valid.
> I hope that someone with more legal experience will correct me there if I am
> wrong.

+1

still I encourage you to map also the remnants of roads, or planned
roads as what they are, this is data that has a place in the db and is
maybe more usefull than the information of proprietary easter_eggs.

cheers,
Martin