>Actually that raises another issue (notwithstanding the point below) - >in cases where the legal status is only available on either a copyright >map (either bought or on the wall at the local council) - it's sometimes >not possible to know what the legal status of all traffic on e.g. a >former railway line is.
I'm not 100% sure whether the status on a council map is copyright actually - this has come up several times but never been definitively resolved. While the council maps are overlaid on an OS map, presumably the *council* decides the status of the path, so while the course of the path might be subject to copyright, I would assume that the status on a definitive council map is not. Also I distinctly remember one council (W Sussex) mentioning "public domain data overlaid on a copyrighted OS map". However I don't *know* this as *fact*, so do not use them as a source for status unless someone has definitely said that it's OK. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
