On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Corey Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bicycle racks would certainly be a welcome addition. I look at the >> number around UVic and shudder. >> >> However, who holds copyright on the data? They need to sign off on >> importing it into OSM if it isn't licensed under fairly liberal terms. >> If you don't know then it is likely all rights reserved. Plant Ops may >> not have the ability to do this. Likely you are going to need to clear >> it through Legal, which can add time and headaches. > > So this brings up a question for me... > > If Gregory were to wander around the campus, and mark the bike racks > on his GPS, and upload that to OSM, it would be completely kosher. > > What if Gregory were to plan his outing to collect information by > referencing the copyright information in the campus map. Would that > make his information a derivative work? I would think not.
If you are using the map to navigate, I think there is a pretty strong argument for deriviativeness. Better to simply wander around and find them in a very systematic way. > > What if Gregory were to reference the location of the bike racks on > the campus map, and then use the Yahoo Map images to locate the bike > racks, and mark them on OSM. Would that now be a derivative work? This > I don't know... Yes, this definitely would be, because there would be no actual ground truthing. Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
