This is an interesting question. I'm not sure what exactly one feature is. But I would find it very hard to claim that a single way, even a complex one, was "substantial" by itself. Remember that it's a "substantial part...of the contents of a database" (in this case OSM), and one way would be a very very small part of OSM. But I think this is why the guideline defined mostly "insubstantial" instead of substantial, because defining substantial is much more difficult, context dependent, and would depend on case law (of which there is very little)
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 4:13 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 20. Dec 2019, at 00:16, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk < > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > This is not what the Substantial Guideline says. It says that fewer than > 100 features is "not Substantial". It also gives as an example "More that > 100 Features only if the extraction is non-systematic and clearly based on > your own qualitative criteria for example an extract of all the the > locations of restaurants you have visited for a personal map to share with > friends or use the locations of a selection of historic buildings as an > adjunct in a book you are writing, we would regard that as non Substantial." > > > If I recall correctly there is no definition what a feature is. Nobody has > yet commented how they would interpret this for a border: is it about the > border way or about the individual border points from which the border is > made of? > > 100 features may be a reasonable limit for point features, but for complex > ways and relations, already very few (maybe even a single one) may be > substantial? > > Kathleen, I would be interested in your thoughts what a feature is in the > context of ways. > > Cheers Martin
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