[OSM-newbies] Some questions on tagging for cycles

[Alex Mauer]

On 09/13/2010 04:41 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alex Mauer<hawke at hawkesnest.net>  wrote:
>> On 09/13/2010 11:58 AM, James Ewen wrote:
>>>
>>> You have to make sure that the map you are looking at isn't under
>>> copyright before basing any OSM tagging on data referenced from the
>>> map.
>>
>> Is that really true?
>
> This is really true.  The OpenStreetMap community elects to take a
> "high road" when it comes to deriving data from other maps.  It is far
> better to leave data out of OSM, than to take data from an encumbered
> source without permission.  When there is a question, we omit the
> source.

To me it’s just as much of a question as the ‘question’ of “The sign 
design is copyrighted, therefore we can’t use that information” which is 
obviously ludicrous.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”