[OSM-talk] A super quick poll

[Richard Fairhurst]

Phooee, all these lists to choose from. Probably most sensible on  
legal-talk, I think (so followups to there).

Erik Johansson wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 AM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> You  didn't read the whole sentence:
>>> ways that are contributed PD only,

Of course at this point your eye is mysteriously drawn to the elephant  
in the room, which is "what deserves copyright protection?".

Adding a couple of nodes to a way to neaten out the curve: no way.

Simple tracing from Yahoo or NPE: nope, probably not, unless your  
jurisdiction is _really_ friendly towards "sweat of the brow". (Most  
aren't AIUI.)

Putting your GPS on the dashboard, following a road for 30 miles,  
getting home, uploading the track, then faithfully tracing along it:  
doesn't look much like original creative work to me.

Large-scale I-plucked-this-out-of-my-ass "creative mapping" bearing no  
relation to the facts on the ground, like someone has just done in  
Cheadle, Staffordshire, UK: yeah, that probably deserves copyright  
protection. And taking outside and shooting.

cheers
Richard