[OSM-talk] Copenhagen Data

J.D. Schmidt jdsmobile at gmail.com
Sun Jun 18 12:30:01 BST 2006


Preben Mikael Bohn wrote:
>> then name the ways
>> according to memory and verified against 3 different sources, then I
> 
> Are these three different sources copyrighted? I guess it is difficult
> (read: impossible) to remember all the roadnames, so whenever you make an
> error you will probably use these sources to name the road. And I guess
> this is a problem for OpenStreetmap (however if the sources are not
> copyrighted, e.g. the free KMS data, then it is not a problem at all).
> Just a thought; but a very good work, btw! :)

I'm using two digital and one dead tree source. KMS (KMS = The 
governmental danish carthographic department, Kort og Matrikel 
Styrelsen) is one of the digital sources used. The phonebook is the dead 
tree source.
And yeah, it can be a problem remembering all the roads one has gone 
down with a GPS, not to talk about the easter-eggs from mapproviders. 
That's why I use the three different sources for the names I can't 
remember, with KMS as the main source. The dead-wood and the other 
digital source is only used to jog my memory, since they are far faster 
to look up in, than KMS.

J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt




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