On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:09:08AM -0700, Luis Villa wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > represents a quantitatively substantial part of the general contents of > > > > the protected database. A quantitatively negligible part of the > > contents > > > > of a database may in fact represent, in terms of obtaining, > > verification > > > > or presentation, significant human, technical or financial investment. > > > (Para 71) > > > > > > In other words, a small chunk of a large database can be qualitatively > > > substantial if the cost of "obtaining, verification, or presentation" of > > > that small chunk was substantial. The court goes on to say that it > > > doesn't matter if the small chunk is, by itself, valuable - what matter > > > is the work done to put it into the database. What qualifies as a > > > substantive "investment" is left as an exercise for the lower courts. > > > (One German case I've found seemed to presume that 39,000 Euro was a > > > substantive investment, but that was not the primary point being argued > > > in that case so I wouldn't rely on the number being that low.) > > > > Putting BHB into an OSM context, what seems to matter is mapping effort. > > That makes sense - 100 detailed POIs are worth more than 100 points with > > only building=yes. Of course mapping effort is harder to measure... > > > > Hard to measure, but at least likely the right framework.
i would define insubstantial as less than 1 day of work (8 hours) of a medium experienced mapper (or 10 hours or 24 hours) this could be easily acomanied by rules fitting standard case like we consider one day work to be - 50 poi on area smaller than X - 400 adress points on area smaller than X - outines of 200 features where good imaginery is present (only outlines, no other tags) - ... or number divided by 3 if area is larrger than X there would be some technical discussion on all the rules, but the underlying standard should be stable. michal -- michal palenik www.freemap.sk www.oma.sk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk