> 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.
It's a problem of where to draw the boundary, as I see it. Locating one point is probably not copying the map. Locating a series of twenty points that happen to follow the route of a road that's marked on the map might be, even though the copy clearly isn't a "map". Locating thousands of points, that are ordered and stored so that they describe all the roads on the map, probably is copying the map. Is there another angle? Perhaps instead of looking at the idea of "copying" we need to look at the idea of depriving the map owner of potential revenue? Anthony -- www.fonant.com - Quality web sites Fonant Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company No. 7006596 Registered office: Grafton Lodge, 15 Grafton Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1QR _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
