[OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

[Gregory]

On 28 September 2011 19:06, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2011/9/28 Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>:
> > On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote:
> >> Is it only usable, when there
> >> is no copyright sign written on the plan?
> >
> > Almost everything is copyrighted by default. So the question is whether
> the
> > information contained within can still be used (as with a road sign or
> the
> > sign on the front of a building). Unfortunately I can't answer this.
>

As people have said, in most countries almost everything is copyrighted
without needing a copyright note. The copyright note jut makes it easier to
know on who's time the plan was made (a surveying/graphics/safety/architect
company is likely to be the copyright owner not the employee who drew it on
company time or the building managment that bought the physical print out),
and thus who to ask for permission to use it(or derive data from it) in
OpenStreetMap.

Your project sounds interesting though.

I wonder if it fits into the scope and ability of OpenStreetMap. I consider
paths through buildings only suitable to add to the degree of showing how
you roughly how entrances connect (e.g. walking through a shopping mall
could be a shortcut, but some entrances may have steps inside). And
OpenStreetMap isn't good(yet) for multiple layers/stories of buildings.

When you've got some way into your PhD, it might be nice if you were to
submit a paper to the State of the Map(SotM) conference. This year
SotM-Europe was very academia focused, and I'd like there to be
a prominent academia track at the main SotM next year. I think calls for
papers open some time between March-May.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sotm

In the mean time, we have a wiki page for academic research.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research Please be welcome to edit that
page without asking,  to add you project details. I even added my project
with the title "(in progress)" so people could read the description and know
some work was being done on the subject.

-- 
Gregory
osm at livingwithdragons.com
http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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