[talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[Liz]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
> I received non-legal opinions from the legal-talk list and the best
> solution given was to use a barrier=* and no-turning restrictions to
> highlight the fact that nothing is there.
>
> We could also tag things as an area, landuse=* from sat imagery to indicate
> the area has been mapped, rather than let people assume otherwise.
>
> Other than that everything else might be too borderline. It was suggested
> we host our own overlay information but I think that just shifts the
> copyright debate away from OSM but could still potentially get someone else
> in trouble.

all of which were hopelessly negative

making a public record of someone else's mistake is the strangest form of 
copyright infringement yet known.
we should talk with the RIAA

as we didn't want this to be any sort of tag which would be rendered they had 
queer sorts of answers  - for example thinking we would tag the 'service road' 
to someone's carport