[OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olov McKie <olov at mckie.se> wrote:

> 1. If we present an OSM map to the user let them click on the map and use
> the coordinates they clicked on as part of the meta-data for a place in our
> application, will the resulting database be considered a derived database?
>  To clarify, we would not extract any information from the map, beside the
> coordinates that the user clicked on, they would by themselves navigate the
> map to for example London and then click somewhere in London.
>
> I was expecting this to be OK. If I were to use my old paperback world
> atlas to find the latitude and longitude of different places around the
> world, and then store those coordinates along with an awful lot of other
> information in a database, in no way would I expect whoever wrote that
> atlas to have copyright claims on my database. I see this as fair use of
> the atlas and I see the use of an application showing a map where the user
> clicks on the map as equivalent to an atlas and was therefor not expecting
> this to be an issue. As some of you see this as copying would I like to ask
> sub questions:
>


You're letting users pinpoint locations on a map created using OSM data.

How is this different from tracing roads and buildings from a map created
using OSM data?

I think most people agree that such tracing indeed creates derivative data
based on the OSM database. And I think it makes no difference if the
tracing is on a point by point basis or via lines or polygons.

So my opinion is that those coordinates should be licensed under the ODbL.
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