[Openstreetmap] London locations

[Erik Johansson]

2005/10/10, richard at systemed.net <richard at systemed.net>:
> Quoting Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> > Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> > That kind of
> > protection is valid if I copy a larger number of facts, but not if
> > I copy a single piece of information (a single coordinate).
> > Furthermore, I must copy the information, at least down to a few
> > decimal places.  If I just look at the map and estimate the
> > coordinates, I'm not copying the informations in the database.
>
> If you're "just looking" and estimating one single co-ordinate by sight, then
> yes, I'd agree you probably have a case.
>
> Placeopedia isn't doing that. Placeopedia has _lots_ of co-ordinates
> georeferenced directly by people clicking on Google Maps.
>

Just want to make this clear I'm talking about the satellite images
that google publishes, not using the street maps.

If you do this:
1. search for Regent's park
2. click on the place where it says Regent's park
3. link it to the wikipedia article

Then we are talking about Lars' version of advanced webscraping to a wiki.

But if you do this:
1. browse around on the aerial map of Stockholm
2. click on the Royal Palace
3. link it to a wikipedia article

Is this really derived work? I'm not copying any database I'm just
using a map to mark out places that I know of. There have been talks
here about buying good resolution aerial images to make maps from
them, but that wouldn't work if this gives us derived work.

Actually Steve I don't disagree with you it has been very enlightening
discussion, and I still need clarification. Mainly because I have
access to legal copies of 0.25m/pixel aerial maps for Stockholm and
Malmö in Sweden.

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/Erik