[OSM-legal-talk] Garmin Maps / Produced Works

[Rob Myers]

On 09/04/2010 12:49 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 4 September 2010 21:38, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> In either case they are produced works as they extract a small amount of
>> data from the database and add some new stuff in order to make something
>> intended to be used visually.
>
> What about a SVG file of a substantial part of the database, SVG files
> don't have to be as small as a 256x256px PNG tile, and they could in
> theory contain all the information the same as a OSM file...

odc-discuss would be better able to answer this than I am.

Let's assume that we have a very large SVG file that precisely encodes 
the co-ordinates, relationships and tagged information from a 
Substantial part of a Planet dump in a way that renders visually as a 
usable map but that can also be read by a machine as a structured 
geodata database.

I think that if you use it as an image it's a Produced Work and if you 
use it as a structured geodata database it's a Derivative Database.

It's ODbL's cat, or possibly a Heisenbase. ;-)

If it absolutely has to be one thing or the other I'd say it is a 
Produced Work. I don't think that causes any problems, as soon as a 
Substantial amount of data is extracted from it, the user knows their 
responsibilities as a result of the ODbL advertisement on the SVG file.

- Rob.