[OSM-talk] walking - get them to carry a gps!

[David Groom]

Just one query.

Since the challenge is to walk all the rights of way in each grid square, 
then presumably each walker will be planning their route using an OS map, 
and its unlikely to be an out of copyright one :)

In the past the use of OS maps at the planning stage has be frowned upon / 
discouraged /  banned.

The matter of using OS Maps for planning a route was raised a while back on 
the osm-legal mailing list, without as far as I am aware a conclusion.

Just need to be careful we don't encourage a load of GPX tracks which we 
later have to delete.

I'm not a lawyer, but in my view it would seem acceptable to use a map for 
planning purposes and I can't see that it infringes copyright as long as 
nothing is copied from it.  But I know others have a more cautious approach

David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Whitelegg" <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] walking - get them to carry a gps!


> Steve  made me aware of something like this on the iow, and I noticed the
> useyourpaths.info site myself in early June. Strangely there seem to be no
> plans to actually do gps surveys of paths. I will try and contact the
> Ramblers on this -- I know one guy, who came to the Limehouse thing last
> autumn, is aware of OSM but I'm not sure how aware in general the Ramblers
> are.
>
> Nick
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