[talk-au] ODBL and real life...

[Anthony]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even
>> those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to
>> map data would potentially be pretty trivial.
>>
>
> Nearly 12 months since you raised this thread last.... it was also
> answered then.
>
> Yes, SVG is an interesting case.
> If the SVG is produced for display it is simplified and normalised,
> making it a extremely poor data source for re-import into a new
> database. (same as per images)

Depends what data you want to extract.  If you just want to extract
factual information, an SVG produced for display is perfectly fine.

Of course, I don't see anything in the ODbL which allows you to
extract those facts from a produced work.