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

[Nick Whitelegg]

> 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

This is a potential problem. Again IANAL, but I would have thought it would be 
ok to use a map for planning purposes. However, the risk here is that people 
doing the Ramblers exercise might not be very au fait with the free mapping 
(or libre, full stop) philosophy and there is the risk that the  class of 
path could be copied into OSM from the map.

Such an exercise would require making it absolutely clear to anyone performing 
the exercise what is acceptable and what isn't. Induction via thorough 
browsing of the OSM website would be a useful start :-)

Might be worth my while going through the Ramblers guy I met at Limehouse, 
since he is familiar with OSM and the copyrihgt issues.

Nick