>Bear in mind that "public domain" meaning "free of copyright" is a US term. >The traditional UK meaning is quite different.
>In the UK, if you say "the map is now in the public domain", that means that >the map is now available to the public - i.e. it's not solely an internal >publication. It does not have any implications about copyright. Indeed, the >map may well still be copyrighted. Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from one of the local councils who is interested in using OSM data for their online services. I brought up this issue and he explicitly said that the coordinates of the footpaths on the definitive map were derived from Ordnance Survey data. So this seems to be a definitive statement that you can't copy courses of paths from definitive maps. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
