[Openstreetmap] Borough boundary

[SteveC]

Ok

Jo knows more about this, as do the writetothem.com mysociety people.

My understanding is that boundry data is heavily copyrighted and not
only that, there is no way of getting is other than from the people who
choose the boundarys. eg, its not like street data where you can go and
look at the street sign.

* @ 03/10/05 12:53:54 PM mike.ryan at redmar.com wrote:
> Steve
> 
> sorry to bang on about this, but this still doesn't seem right to me. 
> How can I
> derive public information? I understand the point that you make about me
> copying a map (so, I'll take the page down later). However, surely the
> boundaries of my local borough are public information? It's a statement of
> fact. If anyone owns that information, it should be Wandsworth Council or 
> the
> boundaries commission not some map-maker who has published it on his map.
> 
> See, my naiveity comes shining though again! 8-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> >>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,
> >>>
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