[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 25, Issue 38
James Ewen
ve6srv at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 04:27:05 BST 2009
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Heinrich McBean
<HeinrichMcBean at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If my advice would breach any copyright laws then I stand corrected. I
> however need to be advised on this but I am not aware that public street
> names or public place names are the intellectual property of the map maker.
> On re-reading my post it may be interpreted that I am suggesting that the
> political boundaries be copied but that certainly was not the intention.
I don't think you were suggesting that people should breach copyright
laws, but it gets pretty difficult to know when you get to the point
of breaching a copyright when using another map to figure out what
different road classifications are. It's stated quite often that one
can not copy the street names off a map, as that would be a breach of
copyright. But what of looking at a map, and determining what road
classification level should be assigned to a section of roadway? That
should also be as much of a breach of copyright as copying a street
name.
I guess really, the issue is that one needs to really be cognizant of
just how much information they transfer from one medium to the next.
James
VE6SRV
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