On 7 July 2011 07:25, Andreas Perstinger <[email protected]> wrote: > No, I just wanted to show you that you can't really tell if someone retraces > a removed way by looking at an aerial imagery, by looking at the current OSM > map or by just moving randomly some nodes.The same goes for > IMHO that's a very weak protection for a cc-by-sa map.
How will the ODBL help here any better? This is an issue for all maps and this is why map companies put in trap streets. > BTW I've just found some high court decisions which clearly state that a map > (and its content) isn't protected by copyright automatically here in > Austria. You have to prove individual creativity. Just reproducing > geographical facts like the course of a street or a river is not enough: > > http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Justiz/JJR_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_001/JJR_19920114_OGH0002_0040OB00125_9100000_001.html > > Unofficial Translation: "Reproducing of geographical facts which one gets by > surveying (for example the course of a mountain range, a river or a street > or the location of a locality) in a map isn't protected by copyright > (Urheberrecht)" So you are planning to copy from google maps then? _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
