I understand the inclination to sarcasm, but your second statement is simply not a logical one. A state's records of it's plans to build and maintain roads aren't a map, and a typical map has many things on it other than just roads. The plans by themselves may not be a protected database under EU law, but governments discuss quite publicly the costs and efforts of their GIS departments. "Substantial investment" may not be a black and white standard, but it is a meaningful one. I hypothesize that Tesco would have difficulty proving "a substantial investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents." (Note that investment in creating/setting the hours does not count.) Best, Kathleen
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:34 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 10. Jul 2019, at 18:35, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk < > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > I do not think that a retail store chain could successfully argue that > it makes a "substantial investment" in maintaining a list of its own > stores' hours. Since the store sets the hours, the effort of obtaining, > verification, and/or presentation should be fairly trivial. > > > Along the same reasoning you could say: “I do not think that a state makes > a substantial investment in mapping the roads they maintain. Since the > state plans, builds and maintains the roads it should be fairly trivial for > them to make a map.” > > Cheers, Martin
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