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

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Thu Jul 30 07:22:09 BST 2009


2009/7/30 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
>
> Pavel Zubkou wrote:
>> Can I look at
>> *copyrighted* map for a name of lake that is placed at about 10km
>> northen from city X?
>

It is best to be paranoid.
Live in the belief that all in copyright maps are covered in "Trap
Streets" [1] (or names) waiting to catch us out.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

/ Grant




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