[OSM-talk] Maps and names
Nicola Ranaldo
ranaldo at unina.it
Fri Sep 1 11:57:05 BST 2006
> Russ, your comment about being a postman in the past really made me think
> that there must be a huge number of retired post men and women, bus and
> taxi drivers, milkmen and the like who all have a really good memory of
> what street is named what and where certain points of interest are located.
> Give them a printed OSM map missing the names (even if they are present now
> in the data) and they would be a great resource for gathering correlative
> data. It might also be a very stimulation exercise for them.
>
> Question is, how do we find them? Is there a journal for retired postal
> workers for instance?
What is the limit in deriving a work?
Are you sure the memory of the taxi driver is not filled with derived work
from copyrigthed map?
Niko
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