Martin Wynne wrote: > Google publishes a map for profit. > Worcestershire County Council is paid for by me. And a few others.
Sure. The point is that copyright automatically subsists unless expressly disclaimed. WCC has not expressly openly licensed this data. You can't just say "it's publicly funded therefore I can copy it", as the Ordnance Survey would be at pains to remind you. If you want to copy C-road numbers from WCC (into a sensible tag, please, not ref=) then you can approach WCC to license the information openly. In all my dealings with them, albeit in a cycling rather than an OSM context, I've found them to be a very forward-looking authority so I have no reason to think they'd refuse. But until this or any other data is published under a licence compatible with OSM, you can't just use public funding as sufficient grounds for copying. Copyright doesn't work like that. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb