2010/1/5 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > I feel that I/we Australians are in danger of being misrepresented, like we
I don't think Roy and I share your same concerns to the extent we need to copy erronus information from others, the ends don't justify the means. > legal basis that says that one company's representation of a street name is > copyright, and therefore can't be copied? In terms of google you have both contract law and copyright law. > As you say, back in the day, you didn't have a choice but to go and visit > each street with a GPS. Now there are choices. You have choices with street names too, you don't have to go there you can email/write to the relevent councils like Liz and others have done and obtain the information without breaching anyone elses moral or legal rights. Google doesn't owe you a cent why do you think you can just take from them because they publish tiles on the net? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
