[OSM-newbies] Copyright for street names

[Sebastian Gebhard]

> There are some many ways to get hold of street names. Off hand I can
> think of the following:
> 
> 1) You simply know the name, because you live there or you work there or
> whatever.
> 2) You remember the name from when you recorded the GPS track there.
> 3) You remember a business' name and look it up in the phone book, there
> you find the street name.
> 4) You know a friend who lives nearby and call to ask.
> 5) You once bought a street map of the area and look it up.
> 6) You took pictures or made notes from street signs while recording the
> GPS track.
> 7) You look it up on one of the many mapping services on the net, e.g.
> google maps.
> 
> Which of those methods is ok for OSM?
> 
> Harald.

I think most of them are okay.
Only 5 and 7 aren't as taking the information from these sources would be "derived work". Google for example saves itself and puts mistakes in its maps. So if one would take information from google, he will also take the mistakes and so Google would have evidences that we "stole" information from them.
I am not sure about number 3. Maybe someone else knows more about.

If you want to be on the safe side, I suggest using 1, 2 and 6

Happy mapping !

sege
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