[OSM-talk] Mountain names - an interesting copyright issue

[Andy Robinson]

A visit to the library or other reference to an historic out-of-copyright
map would deal with this issue and for other long standing POI'S.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>Subject: [OSM-talk] Mountain names - an interesting copyright issue
>
>Been up to Scotland at the weekend and climbed a few mountains. This raises
>an
>interesting copyright question, namely their names. Two of them (Ben Nevis,
>fairly obviously and Ben More) I knew already. However the others are less
>well known and I first learnt their name off a Harvey's map.
>
>Internet searches have revealed the names (Stob Dearg, Bidean nam Bian,
>Carn
>Mor Dearg) are indeed the real names. Can I thus put them into OSM without
>risking copyright issues?
>
>Nick
>
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