[Openstreetmap] Borough boundary

[SteveC]

I don't think this would stand up in court :-(

You're still copying the work. There are famous examples in law of
person A looks at a painting and describes it, while B paints it based
on that description. Again, IANAL but this doesn't get out of things.

* @ 03/10/05 02:33:26 PM sxpert at esitcom.org wrote:
> SteveC wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
> what about clean-room reverse engineering.
> in that case, you'd need 2 people take a map with the boundaries, get a 
> couple of radios, and the one with the map describes to the other 
> individual (that has the gps) how to get to the remarkable points (which 
> get stored as waypoints)
> I understand this is convoluted...

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/