[OSM-legal-talk] Can feature names be determined from copyrighted data?

Pavel Zubkou thegowr at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 01:39:35 BST 2009


Hi legal-talk,

I need your advice on the following use case. If I understood things
right, Landsat's WMS Global Mosaic data can be freely used to create
and publish data to OSM. So if I trace some lake in the forest and
create a polygon for it using Landsat's data as backgroud it is legal,
right? After that I want to name the lake accordingly. Can I look at
*copyrighted* map for a name of lake that is placed at about 10km
northen from city X? Is this information can be used to name that lake
at OSM? Or shoud I search for some CC licensed source which refer to
that lake by name?

Regards, Pavel.




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