I should add that Google's Geospatial Technologist, Ed Parsons, stated
Francis' viewpoint (that deriving new locations from a Google Map would
not be a derived work and you would own it) applies to Google Maps last
year, but only on his personal blog:
http://www.edparsons.com/2008/10/who-map-is-it-anyway/
http://blog.dixo.net/2006/10/23/geograph-creative-commons-and-ordnance-survey-revisited/
might also be of interest.
ATB,
Matthew
Matthew Somerville wrote:
> Francis Davey wrote:
>> I don't think they have taken such advice (please point me to any you
>> know about).
>
> One would assume the Ordnance Survey have taken legal advice on their
> OpenSpace, which appears to state that point based derivation from an OS
> map would belong to the OS:
> http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/faq.html sections 2.1
> and 2.2; and
> http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/developeragreement.html
> has their definition of Derived Data which includes "any Data created by
> You or an End User identifying the location or other attribute of any
> new feature directly using Our mapping".
>
> I did misunderstand your previous email (obviously if you used Google
> maps search to look up a postcode, then clicked on the map, I imagine
> that would be a worse position), and I do agree with what you say (my
> postbox locating thing revolves around a presumably similar issue).
>
> ATB,
> Matthew
>
>> If I use a map to find somewhere (which may not be a point marked on
>> the map of course) and extract (by measurement - which is what
>> clicking on an image will do) a lat/long coordinate, that action does
>> not involve the copying of the map in any way or making a derived work
>> even if I do this lots and lots and lots of times.
>
>
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