[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

[Andreas Perstinger]

John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at ...> writes:
> On 5 July 2011 05:42, Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaakko at ...> wrote:
> > But nevertheless _I_ would say that copyright/IPR-wise there's 0% left of
> > anything protectable if (1) someone's e.g. traced a road from imagery, but
> > has only marked it with, say, highway=road (meaning he states that he has no
> > clue of what kind of road/path/track/river?/ditch/wall/other it is) and then
> 
> I agree with this only if you could give the same source of data to 10
> different people and get the same result each time, for most roads
> there is some creativity that goes into selecting where to place
> nodes, which is recognised by most countries since making makes is
> deemed a creative enterprise.

What do you consider as "same result"? How far away do I have to place a node?
If I put one additional node into the way or remove one, is that enough?

Bye, Andreas