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

[Dean Earley]

>> So, the rendering of a map would be copyright but not the road layout 
>> itself....
> 
> 
> Unless of course you're talking about the road layout of any of the 
> following roads:
> 
> Lye Street, Bristol,
> Moat Lane, Finchley, London N3
> Torrington Place, Finchley, London N3
> .. and all the entries on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Catalog_of_Errors
> 
> and plenty more..
> 
> 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.

Ahh, makes sense.
Thanks.

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