2013/8/24 Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com>: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Nicolás Alvarez > <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2013/8/24 Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com>: >> > Is combining all the clues above (including clues left presumably by >> > local >> > mappers), plus Google searches, Knowledge? >> >> I've been told that "plus Google searches" gets you in licensing >> trouble. Not because of Google, of course, but because of the sites >> you find. > > > Copying from Google Map, or any other map: that's trouble. > Looking up a company or venue website prior to mapping it? Fair game. > Copyrights don't cover facts, they cover expression.
Looking up a company and finding it in a large "business listing" website, and taking data from there, gets us trouble with database rights (which is a completely different thing than copyright). As I understand it, going to the company's own website should be fine. -- Nicolás _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
