On May 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Russ Nelson wrote: >> What work or creativity did Google do towards the existence of >> that particular point? > > Google's imagery suppliers collected and rectified the imagery. "For > over a > hundred years, English courts have held that a significant > expenditure of > labour is sufficient" - that's, er, Wikipedia saying that. If they'd > rectified them differently, your 14 digits would be different.
True, but now you're putting yourself into the ridiculous situation of claiming that every possible set of coordinates infringes Google's copyright. > > "Openstreetmap is about gathering map data and sharing it. Some > people seem > desperate to import data from anywhere. GATHER IT YOURSELF." The problem is that people say "Why should I have to repeat this work? It's already been done. Why can't we just import it?" -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
