2012/10/12 Fabien SK <[email protected]>: > I asked on the Wikipedia discussion page of the «Trains in Japan» > project [1]. Someone told me that names (that is the only information I > retrieved in Wikipedia) cannot copyrighted, so I should be able do to > use them.
but you would also use the coordinates to the names. I guess this would in the EU fall under the database directive and be protected similar to copyright. I am also not a lawyer that's why I am not sure how to handle this. If everything (you, the wikipedia server, the wikipedia authors(?)) were outside the EU it would be simple. I guess in the EU the case you link to in [2] would have to be judged differently. Another issue which is often mentioned in conjunction with the idea to import/use wikipedia geodata is that the georeferencing there is often done with sources whose usage terms do not allow extraction of information from the imagery (e.g. Google). Wikipedia seems to tolerate this (or maybe it is covered by fair use), but OSM is more cautious and didn't allow in the past to use geo-information from wikipedia for this reason. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
