Hi,
Jon Stockill schrieb:
Lee Elliott wrote:
There have been rumours that the OS introduced deliberate errors in
their maps so that they could be used to identify 'copiers' but quite
apart from the fact that this would prove nothing (because it doesn't
preclude someone else doing exactly the same thing or simply making a
coincidental mistake) the OS also insists quite strongly that is has
never, and will never introduce data error.
Think again:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
That's the interesting part of that German rouling: The court explicitly
considered the fact that the plaintiff included such easter eggs in its
maps and dismissed it as irrelevant. However, as it seems the legal
situation is clearly different in the UK, as the court ruling mentioned
in your link shows.
In any case, regarding street and landuse data we're probably best off
using aerials and vectorising off them.
However, have a look at http://publicgeodata.org/Home
Definitely worth your support.
No doubt about it.
Cheers,
Ralf
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