[OSM-talk-be] Mapping GRs?

[Luc Van den Troost]

It would probably not be allowed to use their printed publications to
map the GR paths, as there is copyright on those, but as the paths are
marked 'in the field' with the white/red marks one should be allowed to
mark the tracks, as visible in real world, also on the map. 

Guess this is the same for other 'tracks' as buslines, tourist
car-routes, marked bicycle-tracks, walking paths, ...

Would be different for a track that is only published in a
leaflet/brochure/book but not marked 'on the ground'.

GR paths are/were also printed on the 'derouck' provincial roadmaps. 

Luc / speedy




On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 08:18 +0200, Philippe Piquer wrote:
> As I undertand their trademark, they only can decide the paths that
> are GR's but once they call a path a GR, everybody calls it a GR and
> so OSM calls it a GR ... and it goes on the map ...
> 
> 2009/9/7 Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl>
>         Peter Bienstman wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > A project that is of interest to me is mapping out the GR
>         footpaths, as
>         > described in:
>         >
>         >
>         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Walking_Routes
>         
>         
>         Great! But did you find any missing ones? We have so many
>         entered in
>         Belgium already. :)
>         
>         > However, I was wondering if we are legally allowed to do so.
>         Our French
>         
>         
>         Yes, sure, go ahead.
>         
>         > friends don't seem to think so:
>         >
>         > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=3665
>         >
>         > Or is the situation in Belgium different?
>         
>         
>         The situation in France isn't different, it's just that
>         they're
>         collectively scared of adding *publicly* marked routes into
>         OSM.
>         
>         What would happen if I were to spend a holiday in France, and
>         mapped a
>         bit of GR and put it in OSM? Would they delete it? If they
>         did, I'd just
>         put it back. And back... and back.
>         
>         It's facts, people, nothing else. The only issue that could
>         come into
>         play is a trademarked or otherwise protected name. Fair usage
>         also comes
>         into play, then.
>         
>         --
>         Lennard
>         
>         
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