-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Coast wrote: > no
No to which parts? I expect you mean "No we can't use the maps", not "no the maps are not copyright". :-) I expect that the best way for us to get ward boundaries is if we ask councils for lists of roads / houses in each ward. This /should/, IMHO, be free information. I don't see that the OS can argue that information is derived from them. We can then cross survey the borders of the wards by following the roads listed. The nice side effect is that we may find some roads that we need to survey. Robert (Jamie) Munro > they're probably from > > http://www.election-maps.co.uk/ > > > On 18 Oct 2007, at 13:05, Tom Higgy wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> For my dad's campaigning for the local branch of a certain major >> political party, he has maps of local Birmingham ward boundaries. >> >> I've asked him about these and he says the maps themselves are >> copyrighted but the ward boundaries are public since "people need to >> know them." >> >> Is this true? More importantly, does getting the boundaries from these >> maps constitute a derivative work? And would these be any way round >> this? >> >> My thought was I couldn't copy directly from the maps but I could use >> them to work out what features these boundaries were on then follow >> with >> a GPS (without having map with me). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tom. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > have fun, > > SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHF34Lz+aYVHdncI0RAsP8AKCGr9Hth4ydCuCwzQ314y0T6e4BlwCfXjtW lxOqtElolK25itbudWwoaM0= =Y67j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
