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

[Barnett, Phillip]

Well, except for the fact that when Ordnance Survey originally surveyed
the country, they went round drawing mountains and roads, but had to ask
local people what their names actually were. 

Ultimately, all the OS did was document, not invent. Therefore, all the
names can, theoretically at least, be passed on through folk memory, not
by use of copyrighted maps. In other words, any use of a mountain name
etc can be justified by having obtained local knowledge.

Phillip


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frank Mohr
Sent: 28 June 2006 11:26
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mountain names - an interesting copyright issue

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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