[OSM-talk] British stations in Wikipedia vs. OSM (was: railway=subway_entrance approved!)

Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Mon Nov 12 16:37:24 GMT 2007


On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:13:52PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > I wrote some code to compare the British stations in Wikipedia with the ones
> > in OSM. [...]
> 
> But always be aware that if we did anything that Wikipedia contri-
> butors could judge to be a "derived work", we'd have to license OSM
> under the FDL, and vice versa...

  Might be worth using the PD list of British stations at
  http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/earth/ mentioned recently on the
  mySociety maps list then!
  https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/maps/2007-November/thread.html
  
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