[Talk-us] AARoads

[dies38061 at mypacks.net]

I do not think that the copyright is compatible with OSM use as written.  The statement I find most relevant is "All content, including but not limited to, the design, graphics, and photographic media are copyrighted by the AARoads webmasters or their respective contributors."  This appears on http://www.aaroads.com/privacy_policy.html as the second sentence on the page.  However, I have not been involved in content licensing discussions for OSM use previously and necessarily defer to precedent set in those prior discussions and policy decisions.

Looking at one particular page at semi-random, http://www.aaroads.com/delaware/de-001n_b.htm, shows a map view but there is no apparent attribution on the image or page to indicate the copyright status of the map graphic, whether it is an original creation from self-collected GIS data or is a properly copyrighted derivative work from a contributing body.  Nor is the attribution really clear from the parent page, http://www.aaroads.com/delaware/, though at least there are a number of individuals named, though it is not clear what proportion of the content can be attributed to the named people and what might have been derived from other sources.  In other words, pretty typical for a website.  Because of this, I'm not sure if the site would pass the "reliable source" tests used by Wikipedia - not that this is terribly relevant to OSM, just a convenient comparative benchmark to reference.

--ceyockey (Courtland)