[OSM-talk] OS maps on Lake District weekend (was: Yah**)

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Tue Feb 6 17:54:32 GMT 2007


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>Google's plain grey background, in contrast, can be actively
>detrimental to car navigation. There is no indication that Hardknott
>Pass is any different from any other road.* But anyone on the OSM Lake
>District weekend who was naughty enough to plan their explorations
>with Google would find the reality very different. :)

Emphasising the word "naughty" and to change the subject completely, 
regarding the proposed Lake District weekend (and any others in similar 
hill country) I think it will be necessary for people to carry OS or other 
maps with them, simply because it can be somewhat dangerous to go into 
mountainous areas without them ("Always carry a map" is the standard 
advice) - this will be particularly true for people with little experience 
of walking in this sort of terrain.

I know this has come up before, but I can't see that planning a route on a 
map will be seen as a copyright violation - if this was the case, no route 
planned with a road atlas could be uploaded to OSM. What would be a 
copyright violation would be to copy information from the map, such as the 
class of right of way.

I think the sensible line, if we aren't to be the cause of fatalities 
involving people falling off mountains, will be to take the line "it's OK 
to use an OS map to plan a route or to find where you are in an emergency 
- but you mustn't *copy* any information off it e.g. route class or 
mountain name". That seems a sensible compromise between safety issues and 
avoiding violating copyright. Sounds sensible?

Nick





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