... Except from definitive maps based on OS mapping that is more than 50 years old (see my earlier message) - and I suspect that quite a lot of it is.
Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk] > Sent: 28 September 2009 14:23 > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright? > > >Bear in mind that "public domain" meaning "free of copyright" is a US > term. > >The traditional UK meaning is quite different. > > >In the UK, if you say "the map is now in the public domain", > that means > that > >the map is now available to the public - i.e. it's not solely an > >internal publication. It does not have any implications about > >copyright. Indeed, > the > >map may well still be copyrighted. > > Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from > one of the local councils who is interested in using OSM data > for their online services. I brought up this issue and he > explicitly said that the coordinates of the footpaths on the > definitive map were derived from Ordnance Survey data. So > this seems to be a definitive statement that you can't copy > courses of paths from definitive maps. > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
