[OSM-talk] Q: Is OSM interested in neighborhood and regional boundaries for L.A.?

[John Smith]

On 17 June 2010 14:38, Ben Welsh <ben.welsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas, if I understand you right, you are asking about the mapping tiles,
> correct? All of our mapping tiles are drawn from Google. Though we're using
> OpenLayers, rather than the Google API, most of the time to pull them in. In
> the future, I would love to make custom tiles with Mapnik and Cascadenik,
> but I haven't found the time. Burning our hood boundaries into the map is
> almost too much fun to pass up.

His concern is with the ambiguity of Google T&Cs about deriving things
from their map, however Ed Parsons clarified this a little bit when he
stated you could publicly distribute your favourite hiking trail and
so on, but not vectorise every street, it seems to me boundaries
wouldn't really be the same as vectorising every street.