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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Simon Hewison <simon at zymurgy.org>:

> Those road layouts are copyright, because they are figments of the
> cartographers' imagination, rather than a representation of a real life
> road layout. Unfortunately, the only safe way of determining if it's
> real or not is to go to that place and see for yourself.

Spot on, but actually not relevant (fortunately) to the Definitive  
Maps which Nick W was talking about.

If a figment of a cartographer's imagination makes its way onto a  
Definitive Map, then that figment actually becomes a right of way, and  
hence no longer a figment. If you see what I mean.

Consequently, there really shouldn't be any figments of anyone's  
imagination on Definitive Maps.

Richard