[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/12 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:

> We're not trying to put copyrighted information in the database, we're recording an observation, no different then recording the name on a street sign,

no, it's not the same. Because you're gonna write that there is
nothing. Why there? Why don't you write everywhere, where there is no
road, that you observed that there is no road?

> since we actually go out and see it,

what is "it"?

> the only question is how to make it as easy as possible for others to know this too.

IMHO (IANAL) it will always infringe copyright reporting in a
structuralized manner about this proprietary data.

cheers,
Martin