[OSM-talk] Motorways on wikipedia

Tom Chance tom at acrewoods.net
Sun Sep 17 15:16:11 BST 2006


Ahoy,

On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:10, Andy Robinson wrote:
> Both are valuable sources of general information about the road network in
> the UK but need to be careful about data when used in OSM itself as much of
> what are on these sites has almost certainly in part been derived from
> other sources.

There's a map of Forbury Gardens (in Reading) on Wikipedia that the poster 
even admits is just a trace of a photo of a pretty map on information points 
in the gardens.

Tch.

Second hand copyright pollution is an interesting dilemma :o)

Regards,
Tom

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 - Kundera




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