[Openstreetmap] Borough boundary

[Mike Ryan]

Steve

Thanks for that. The more I got involved in this the more I realise how 
naive I
was to think this would be of use. The state of play with Crown Copyright in
this country is a complete disgrace.

In a similar vein - I was thinking of contributing to the freethepostcode.org
site. However, even if we had a complete db that was derived from people
plotting their own postcode points, aren't the postcodes still ultimately the
intellectual property of the Post Office, therevy rendering the whole thing
pointless? Not trying to be negative here, but just highlighting something I
was thinking about

Cheers

Mike

Quoting SteveC <steve at asklater.com>:

> Thats *so* a derived work and subject to copyright :-(
>
> * @ 25/09/05 08:50:42 PM mike.ryan at redmar.com wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm new to this list so please forgive me for any newbie errors!
>>
>> Anyway, reason for the post is that I've been playing around with 
>> Google maps a
>> lot, originally with plotting points, then plotting lines. So, I 
>> decided to try
>> and do something a bit larger and more difficult & decided to plot out the
>> boundaries of my borough using publicly available borough boundary 
>> information.
>> I used this web page ( http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Get_Lon_Lat 
>> )to report
>> lat/longs for each point I needed, which I then built up into a complete
>> borough boundary for Wandsworth:
>> http://217.155.146.189/wandsworth/
>>
>> So, I guess the big question is, is this legal and is it of any use. I saw a
>> previous discussion about derived works which made me wonder. I used google
>> maps to report individual lat/long points as I mention, as I don't 
>> have time to
>> go round in a car to collect them (plus a lot of places would be
>> difficult/dangerous to reach. Details on the points can be viewed 
>> using View ->
>> Source.
>>
>> Thoughts? Suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mike
>>
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> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>