[OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[Grant Slater]

On 19 June 2011 14:32, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot to ask, do SVG files constitute a produced work?
>
> The kind OSM.org currently outputs as SVG maps.
>

Copying from talk-au where you re-posted...

Nearly 12 months since you raised this thread last.... it was also
answered then.

Yes, SVG is an interesting case.
If the SVG is produced for display it is simplified and normalised,
making it a extremely poor data source for re-import into a new
database. (same as per images)
If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially
for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely
difficult for them to argue that is a produced work and not a
database.

There is a simple guideline on the wiki: (from 2009)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline

LWG discussion on this topic is in the 2009 minutes.

/ Grant