[Openstreetmap] Coders needed for similar project & UKFOIactrequest update.

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lars wrote:

> People who claim to "own" copyright will tell you anything, and
> often they get away with it because the user knows even less.

Indeed... and the OS is particularly renowned for this.

> Can you point me to a court case?  Could it be appealed to the
> European Court of Human Rights?

The court case for incorporating redrawn copyrighted data within your own
mapping is surely the Ordnance Survey vs the Automobile Association, as
reported in the scan at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs . I don't
think OSM can afford £20m damages quite yet (unless the Pledgebank exercise has
been _very_ successful).

> The important conclusion in the same presentation comes on page
> 22: "These issues force non-OS solutions".  Maybe the writer
> exaggerates the copyright inheritance issue in order to push this
> conclusion?  Note that he specifically says non-OS, not
> non-proprietary, non-Google or non-TeleAtlas.

Sure. But Google source their mapping from Teleatlas, who in turn source much of
their geodata from OS (http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/teleatlas-visit-aug05.php).

Steve - good idea about wikifying it... I'll start making some notes.

Richard

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