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

[Erik Johansson]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 July 2011 21:49, Andreas Perstinger <andreas.perstinger at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> But that doesn't mean that "their" content won't show up in a future ODBL
>>> map. I've noticed that John Smith doesn't want to answer my question, but
>>> perhaps you would: How far away do I have to move a node or a way so that
>>> you don't consider it yours (assuming that I would trace it from a "legal"
>>> imagery source or based on GPS tracks)? 50cm, 1m, 2m? More, less?
>>
>> How many words do I have to change in a short poem until the poem is
>> no longer considered the original, but my own?
>
> More to the point, does moving a single point by a hands breadth earn
> any rights to the editor?
>
> Here is the post office in Dubin, Ohio, imported from GNIS, then moved
> a few centimeters a few months later.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/357526575/history
>

You mean where someone tweaked the position of some facts to make it
look nicer?  Making an artistic representation of fact already
available. There are lots of situations where map data becomes
artistic maps, you don't need to edit a map in illustrator to make it
a work of art.


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/emj