[Openstreetmap] London locations

[richard at systemed.net]

Quoting Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com>:

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

Ok. (My previous post was about the cartography - the street maps.)

> [snip]
> 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.

My (again, unqualified) reading of UK law is that using aerial photography
_could_ well be ok. See previous posting on a related list:

http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-August/000042.html

(Not that it's worth anything, but my own values say that it _should_ be,
because there is no artistic/creative merit in the representation of the
features on an aerial photograph. To take a similar example, I don't claim any
copyright in the geographic information contained within my scans - or
"photographs" - of out-of-copyright OS maps.)

Richard

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