[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 01:07:08 GMT 2010


2010/1/5 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> I wasn't aware that there was a consensus legal opinion as to what
> constitutes a copyright infringement with regard to casual non-systematic
> repetition of street names found in an online map.

How do you know the copyrighted maps are even accurate, and in the
case of Australia most commercial maps are derived from the one
mapping organisation, so if one is wrong they'll all be wrong...

I thought we were trying to provide a better quality map free from errors...




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