2010/1/2 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > Traditionally, mapping streets in OSM has relied on physically visiting the > streets to get a GPS trace, and noting the names of streets while you're at > it. But now with the advent of high quality aerial photography that we can > trace from (I'm thinking of nearmap, in australia), you don't have to visit > the street to get the shape.
And before nearmap people were armchair mapping with Yahoo, this isn't a new issue. > But...where do you get the street name from? I think there's a general > policy that you can't copy it off other maps...but why, exactly? How can a > piece of information like the name of the street be copyright? Whose > copyright law are we dealing with, anyway? Copyright issues aside, how do you know the commercial map is accurate? > Also, what if you look up 3 other maps, and they all show the same name, is > it ok to copy then? That's assuming they don't all come from the same source, most commercial information is usually sourced in Australia from mapds.com.au _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
