[OSM-talk] State of the Map talk and OS copyright question
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Tue Jul 10 10:23:40 BST 2007
On 10 Jul 2007, at 09:54, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> As part of my SOTM session I'd like to use an example of some of the
> advantages of OSM mapping versus Ordnance Survey, using the Lake
> District
> mapping weekend as an example. What I propose to do is show a
> Freemap or
> Osmarender map of the area and mark on - for the purposes of the
> talk - the
> position of the footpaths according to the OS.
>
> I guess this is technically breaking copyright but would it be OK
> just for the
> purposes of the session? It would be a bit difficult to illustrate
> the point
> otherwise.
Don't OS have some magical scheme for letting you use one or two
images? wikipedia use it.
or they _used to_, now some clever clogs has put up an NPE image instead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey
lolcat
have fun,
SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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