>> Fwiw - I hold the view that the OS cannot own the status in any way as it is >> the Highway Authority that decides / maintains the status. The only way the >> OS even know about the status is by the Highway Authority telling them - as >> they do (and a few years later the OS *might* amend their mapping! - ...
>But you are overlooking Database Copyright. It's not the individual >facts, but the way in which they are collated as a collection that is >copyrightable. So if you are taking the information off their map, you >are, in effect, ripping off their database. Is that true though? The path status is a *separate layer* on top of the OS map. So are you saying that the OS copyright of the underlying map is somehow spreading to (in a GPL-like way, but obviously not coming from a GPL standpoint!) the council-owned, and public domain, path status data? Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
