[Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

[Steve Coast]

no

they're probably from

http://www.election-maps.co.uk/


On 18 Oct 2007, at 13:05, Tom Higgy wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> For my dad's campaigning for the local branch of a certain major
> political party, he has maps of local Birmingham ward boundaries.
>
> I've asked him about these and he says the maps themselves are
> copyrighted but the ward boundaries are public since "people need to
> know them."
>
> Is this true? More importantly, does getting the boundaries from these
> maps constitute a derivative work? And would these be any way round  
> this?
>
> My thought was I couldn't copy directly from the maps but I could use
> them to work out what features these boundaries were on then follow  
> with
> a GPS (without having map with me).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom.
>
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have fun,

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