On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Mano Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some pertainent questions: > > What exactly are you creating? A KML file? Your own tiles? A list of > Lat/Long POIs? How was the list created? > > >From a Goog perspective: > > Say you create a KML file using Google Earth or use Google My Maps to > drop down points. Who owns that? You do.
Not if the UK national mapping agency is to be beleived. :( They claim that points plotted in GB are derivatives of their data - as Google Maps gets it data from TeleAtlas - which in turn get data from the OS. See also [1] I believe it's something to with not been totally 'severable' from the map data. It may include placenames shown on the map (and associated misspelling) and positions which are actually incorrect in relative to reality. (A map is a cartographic (and artistic) representation of reality - it isn't fact) Taken to the extreme, see 1.4: http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/faq.html But as noted in the other thread this hasn't fully been proved in a court of law - which is going to be about the only way to prove it (at least in the eyes of the law anyway!). Not that I agree with it, but it is part of the FUD spread about such issues [which I am of course perpetuating with this message :( ] Barry [1] http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/legalnotices_maps.html > > Mano > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, stephen white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you position something with Googsoft Earth maps, who owns the co- >> ordinates? >> >> What if you position hundreds of thousands of things? >> >> What if you position for every pixel, leading to your ownership of the >> entire map? (Obviously theoretical, with the number of pixels!) >> >> A counter-possibility is subtle warping of the maps to make them >> incompatible with each other, as a form of data lock-in. >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
