[OSM-talk] open data

[Andy Robinson]

That’s a good starter for ten. Thanks David. Plenty more where they come
from if you look around the web at all those organisations that currently
use some form of mapping from the OS or other major provider.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of David Sheldon
>Sent: 20 September 2006 3:29 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] open data
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>On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:20:13PM +0100, David Sheldon wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:50:49PM +0100, Emil wrote:
>> > Andy, do you have any specific examples of where people/organisations
>> > can't use OSM data because of license problems?
>>
>> FreeThePostcode cannot allow users to find their location on an OSM map
>> rather than use their GPS (assuming that we are still treating a point
>> on a map as a derived work).
>
>Sorry, I hadn't read your exclusion of taking points from map.
>
>We couldn't use OSM data for something like
>
>http://www.recyclenow.com/applications/recyclenow_2006/banklocator/search_r
>esults.rm?place=ox1+3js
>
>even if it were complete enough as we don't own the licence for the data
>overlayed on the map.
>
>Or are you saying that you also don't beleve that plotting things on a
>map creates a derived work?
>
>I assume that MySociety couldn't use our maps for
>http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/ as they don't have
>permission to give away the data on the maps.
>
>David
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