Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM, John Henderson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm unclear about some issues concerning copyright. I'd like to put up > a couple of scenarios and get opinions. > > Let's say that many roads in a town are mapped but unnamed in OSM. And > street signs are missing. > > I go to the local tourist information place and start asking for names. > They give me a photocopy of a street directory which shows all the > names. But this photocopy has a copyright notice. > > Can I enter names from that page into OSM for the already-mapped ways? > > > This is very similar to a question I asked recently on the main OSM > list. There is a real absence of copyright lawyers (let alone, > Australian copyright lawyers) around the place, to give definitive > answers. Since the issue seems to revolve around how "systematic" and > "substantial" the copying of information is, it probably depends how > many streets are in question. If there are 100 streets in the area, and > you can get the names of 80 by observation or other means, and you copy > 20, my hunch is that's ok... but then, I'm a bit more casual about this, > than other people.
Understood. Thanks. > Second scenario. I have the guidebook for a route. This guidebook is > essential for following the route because of a lack of signage on the > route itself. The guidebook gives turn-by-turn instructions. The > roads/paths are already mapped on OSM. Can I gather them together into > an OSM route relation using the information from the guidebook? > > > That's trickier. It depends what the route is, who invented it, etc. For > example, I don't think you could reasonably add routes from "Bike Tours > around Victoria", which were researched, invented, and described by Kate > Blunden. But if you're talking about some route which is well known in > public knowledge, and you're just relying on the guidebook for a > definitive description...I don't know. This seems like an area to tread > more carefully. One route I'm thinking about is the Bicentennial National Trail. http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/ Many signs have disappeared. But some of is mapped in google (where it's given as the road name): http://tinyurl.com/ya8bsvy John _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
