On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Heinrich McBean <[email protected]> wrote:
> If my advice would breach any copyright laws then I stand corrected. I > however need to be advised on this but I am not aware that public street > names or public place names are the intellectual property of the map maker. > On re-reading my post it may be interpreted that I am suggesting that the > political boundaries be copied but that certainly was not the intention. I don't think you were suggesting that people should breach copyright laws, but it gets pretty difficult to know when you get to the point of breaching a copyright when using another map to figure out what different road classifications are. It's stated quite often that one can not copy the street names off a map, as that would be a breach of copyright. But what of looking at a map, and determining what road classification level should be assigned to a section of roadway? That should also be as much of a breach of copyright as copying a street name. I guess really, the issue is that one needs to really be cognizant of just how much information they transfer from one medium to the next. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
