>If you think the position of this restaurant is a fact then you really need to >watch the Horizon documentary where Alan Davis tries to measure the length of >a piece of string:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv> Any fact has a margin of error, an "error in representation" is something else as creativity. Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) P Before printing, think about the environment. Van: legal-talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:legal-talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens 80n Verzonden: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:15 PM Aan: Licensing and other legal discussions. Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: On 23 November 2010 13:23, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: > On 23 November 2010 13:04, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: >> >> As always, the standard reality check applies: if you believe that maps or >> the >> data they represent are not covered by copyright, please start large-scale >> photocopying of some commercial maps, or copying the information from them >> into >> another format that you then publish. >> > > Here is some data: > > <node id="915100779" lat="51.5798222" lon="-0.3341762" version="2" > changeset="6058195" user="Walter Schlögl" uid="78656" visible="true" > timestamp="2010-10-16T14:40:13Z"> > <tag k="name" v="McDonald's"/> > <tag k="amenity" v="fast_food"/> > <tag k="cuisine" v="burger"/> > </node> > > The position is a fact, name is a fact, cuisine they serve is a fact, > along with the other details. If you think the position of this restaurant is a fact then you really need to watch the Horizon documentary where Alan Davis tries to measure the length of a piece of string: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00574dv > Facts cannot be copyright. Creative Commons licences are not designed > for factual information. > > Creativity is used in the above data. Typo, creativity is *NOT* used in the above data. >Whereas on the rendered map > http://tile.osm.org/18/130828/87084.png I would argue that creativity > has been used to choose the icon, position the text/icon and create > the "halo" around the text/icon, which is all contained in the mapnik > stylesheet. > > Regards > Grant > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
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