[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[Tom Hughes]

On 25/09/09 14:30, Dave F. wrote:

> The map he sent is titled as a Definitive Map. It has an OS underlay,
> but the information laid on top is compiled from Council gathered info.
> eg GPS survey equipment from an independent company employed to produce
> the definitive maps.

Do you know for absolute certainty that every single detail was gathered 
from first principles like that? If it was then it is a very unusual bit 
of local council mapping as they are not generally that scrupulously 
careful...

The reason of course is that they have a license to do what they like 
with OS data so it largely doesn't matter to them whether they derive 
things from it (well at least until they try and overlay that data on a 
google map and get nastygrams from the OS).

Tom

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