[Openstreetmap] Borough boundary

[Mike Ryan]

Frank

Nice idea, but Wandsworth (as an example) has nothing like that. Plus, the
boundary twists and tuns all over the place, even sometimes running down the
ends of gardens that are back-to-back with other gardens, that would be
impossible to plot "on the ground". Also, it splits major carraigeways 
in half,
meaning it would also be dangerous (as would hopping through people's back
gardens, I guess!)

All

I may be asking an old question here that has been done to death, but didn't I
read somewhere about a group getting together to buy some detailed satellite
images to draw their own maps without infringing anyone else's copyright?

Cheers

Mike


Quoting Frank Mohr <f_mohr at yahoo.de>:

> i startet it that way for Griesheim:
>
> i searched the border on a papermap, went to the city-border,
> searched for border stones/markers and registered them as waypoints
>
> frank
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> SteveC wrote:
>> 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/
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