[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, CTs and tracing GPS tracks

[Rob Myers]

On 08/17/2010 05:35 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2010/8/17 Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com>:
>> It's no more or less factual than recording temperature and other
>> meteorological data at a weather station.
>
> IMHO it is not comparable at all, because we don't turn simply the gps
> on and wait what it registers, but we actively move around on purpose
> to record tracks. This is completely different because you do it
> actively as opposed to collecting meteorological data usually trying
> the opposite: not to influence the measurement.

The information recorded is not, however, arbitrary or fanciful. It is 
intended to be a competent record of an existing geographic feature that 
fits a pre-existing category (e.g. a road).

It is creative only to the extent that it is incompetent.

- Rob.