On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olov McKie <o...@mckie.se> wrote: > 1. If we present an OSM map to the user let them click on the map and use > the coordinates they clicked on as part of the meta-data for a place in our > application, will the resulting database be considered a derived database? > To clarify, we would not extract any information from the map, beside the > coordinates that the user clicked on, they would by themselves navigate the > map to for example London and then click somewhere in London. > > I was expecting this to be OK. If I were to use my old paperback world > atlas to find the latitude and longitude of different places around the > world, and then store those coordinates along with an awful lot of other > information in a database, in no way would I expect whoever wrote that > atlas to have copyright claims on my database. I see this as fair use of > the atlas and I see the use of an application showing a map where the user > clicks on the map as equivalent to an atlas and was therefor not expecting > this to be an issue. As some of you see this as copying would I like to ask > sub questions: >
You're letting users pinpoint locations on a map created using OSM data. How is this different from tracing roads and buildings from a map created using OSM data? I think most people agree that such tracing indeed creates derivative data based on the OSM database. And I think it makes no difference if the tracing is on a point by point basis or via lines or polygons. So my opinion is that those coordinates should be licensed under the ODbL.
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