[OSM-talk] What would you do if...

[Mike Collinson]

Totally agree with you on (c). You have avoided potential copyright 
violation and in my opinion is that OSM is implicitly based on 
"reasonable observation" by its contributors.  May be there ought to 
be a statement to that effect.  Not recording it or putting it as a 
footway loses valuable field information. Shoot first refine later 
seems a practical modus operandi to me.

Mike

PS Doesn't the UK Ordnance Survey still always carry a by-line 
something to the effect of "the existence of a something or other 
does not necessarily imply a public right of way"? If the big boys do it ...

At 03:03 AM 29/01/2007, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

>...you come across a track whilst out walking, which "looks like" (from 20
>years experience) a right of way, specifically a 'green lane' - an old road
>lined by hedges but taking the form of unsurfaced track. There's evidence of
>horse riders using it (hoof prints)
>
>a) Blatantly infringe copyright by copying its status from an Ordnance Survey
>map.
>
>b) Copy its status from an online council rights of way map. 
>Probably legal to
>copy the status but maybe not.
>
>c) Assume it's a bridleway and tag it as such, with an accompanying 
>'note' tag
>- with a small risk of being hunted down by an irate landowner in case you're
>wrong.
>
>d) Assume it's a footway.
>
>e) Don't put it in OSM at all.
>
>I went with c) - comments?
>
>Nick