[OSM-talk] Maps and names

[Etienne]

On 9/1/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
> > The unique benefit of OSM in this respect is that our tracklogs provide
> > supporting evidence that the data was not derived from a copyright
> source.
> > I'm increasingly of the opinion that we should be doing more to enforce
> the
> > requirement that all data in OSM references it's source (tracklog,
> > photographs, landsat etc).
>
> Presumably the source could be 'memory'.  For example there is a village
> called Sway about 15 miles from where I live. I "know" that two of the
> roads
> are called Manchester Road and Brighton Road, simply because I remember
> things like that.
>
> IANAL, but I cannot see how anyone could claim infringement of copyright
> over
> that, simply because they would have no proof - I am 100.00% sure that
> those
> are the correct names. Similarly Auckland Avenue, The Rise and Armstrong
> Lane
> in Brockenhurst, again about 15 miles from where I live.



"From Memory" is OK, and is IMHO a legitimate source (I prefer to use the
terms Local Knowledge and Common Knowledge).  We should however be very
suspicious of any one individual who claims to have an unreasonable amount
of local knowledge.

At some point in the future when we have/need the kind of peer review
mechanisms that Wikipedia seems to be leaning towards then  it might be
desirable to query the database for the sources of data from a suspect
contributor.  Anyone who claimed to know several thousand street names from
local knowledge should raise an alert and their activity monitored a little
more closely.

Etienne


Nick
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