[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Tue Nov 23 14:40:35 GMT 2010


On 23 November 2010 14:14, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Here is some data:
>> >
>> > <node id="915100779" lat="51.5798222" lon="-0.3341762" version="2"
>> > changeset="6058195" user="Walter Schlögl" uid="78656" visible="true"
>> > timestamp="2010-10-16T14:40:13Z">
>> > <tag k="name" v="McDonald's"/>
>> > <tag k="amenity" v="fast_food"/>
>> > <tag k="cuisine" v="burger"/>
>> > </node>
>> >
>> > The position is a fact, name is a fact, cuisine they serve is a fact,
>> > along with the other details.
>
> If you think the position of this restaurant is a fact then you really need
> to watch the Horizon documentary where Alan Davis tries to measure the
> length of a piece of string: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv
>

Hehe, I'll remember that next time I ask for a pint of beer; after all
I could be missing at least 0.261485 millilitres.

/ Grant



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