[OSM-talk] is_in

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 5/27/07, Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:
> On 5/27/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Eventually the administrative boundaries will also be in OSM,
>
> In the UK this is rather difficult, as the boundaries themselves are
> claimed as copyright by Ordnance Survey! At best, we'll have to make
> do with a mixture of known and interpolated boundaries...

Hmm, In the netherlands there tends to be a sign next to the road
indicating when you enter or leave an area so you can extrapolate the
areas from there. I'm a bit confused how administrative boundaries can
be copyright anyone.  Surely the Ordinance Survey didn't make up the
boundaries themselves?

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/