David Luff wrote:
Steve Hosgood writes:
My only comment is just that 1937 maps will certainly be before the
National Grid was adopted, and will be based on the "old triangulation"
done between the late 1700's to mid 1800's. I don't know the details,
but it wasn't metric
Hi,
Jon Stockill schrieb:
Lee Elliott wrote:
There have been rumours that the OS introduced deliberate errors in
their maps so that they could be used to identify 'copiers' but quite
apart from the fact that this would prove nothing (because it doesn't
preclude someone else doing exactly the
Hi again,
Ralf Gerlich schrieb:
Jon Stockill schrieb:
Think again:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
That's the interesting part of that German rouling: The court explicitly
considered the fact that the plaintiff included such easter eggs in its
maps and
...
Or put differently: Even though the plaintiff was able to prove the
origin of the defendant's map by the easter eggs, that bought them
nothing, as the base data is not copyright protected and the easter eggs
won't count as mental creation to make it protected.
Again: IANAL, and this is
Steve Hosgood writes:
My only comment is just that 1937 maps will certainly be before the
National Grid was adopted, and will be based on the old triangulation
done between the late 1700's to mid 1800's. I don't know the details,
but it wasn't metric (possibly surveyed in survey chains
David Luff wrote:
Hi folks,
I happened to come across the following ebay item whilst looking for a map
which caught my eye:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1937-Ordnance-Survey-Map-42-Llandudno-and-Denbigh_W0QQitemZ8403614581QQcategoryZ121824QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It's a 1937 OS map to a reasonably
Hi,
David Luff schrieb:
Hi folks,
I happened to come across the following ebay item whilst looking for
a map which caught my eye:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1937-Ordnance-Survey-Map-42-Llandudno-and-Denbigh_W0QQitemZ8403614581QQcategoryZ121824QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It's a 1937 OS map to a
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
IANAL, but you might be even better off than you think. At least here in
Germany, courts seem to consider only the map itself (its presentation)
to be protected by copyright but not the base data (such as elevation
isolines, roadlines, etc.), as the base data itself
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 20:23, Jon Stockill wrote:
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
IANAL, but you might be even better off than you think. At
least here in Germany, courts seem to consider only the map
itself (its presentation) to be protected by copyright but
not the base data (such as elevation
Lee Elliott wrote:
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 20:23, Jon Stockill wrote:
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
IANAL, but you might be even better off than you think. At
least here in Germany, courts seem to consider only the map
itself (its presentation) to be protected by copyright but
not the base data
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