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

[Frank Mohr]

nick at hogweed.org wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> I'd imagine that getting evidence from someone else on their names would count 
> too. For instance, if I asked the uk.rec.walking newsgroup (full of people 
> who climb mountains on a regular basis) what the names of said peaks were 
> (having described the peaks by approximate location) that would provide 
> evidence of the name which did not arise from a copyrighted map.

just playing devils advocate: what if they use a copyrighted map to look
for the name ...

to be serious .. i don't see a difference between using a dictionary to
look for a translation and using a map to look for mountain name.

frank

	

	
		
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