[OSM-legal-talk] distance calculations

Nuno Caldeira nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 16:22:15 UTC 2019


it's a derivated, therefore share alike. I'm glad they trusted OSM data.

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, 15:25 , <matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de> wrote:

> Dear IANALs,
>
> I'm sorry to ask an additional question.
>
> A while ago, I've listened to a talk about navigation of pupils from their
> home to the school - it was used to decide whether the pupil gets a free
> bus ticket or not.
>
> The distance calculation was done by a land registry office, which didn't
> have a route-able road & path network, but had trust in the OSM data, since
> they inspected it for quite a while. For completeness, they've used their
> own housing and school locations, but didn't use any from OSM.
>
> They routed from the pupil's house to the school on the OSM network. Of
> course, the results were released in public.
> Do such distance calculations also trigger share-alike on the non-free
> data (here: schools & houses).
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
>
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