[OSM-legal-talk] Legal status of certain mapping activities

2015-09-16 Thread Toggenburger Lukas
Dear list I am indirectly involved in the following situation: In the context of a research project a team wants to add a list of POIs (libraries) to the OSM database. The names of the libraries, their postal addresses, the address of the websites, and further details of the libraries are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal status of certain mapping activities

2015-09-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Lukas, IMHO a single fact is not copyrightable so if you take details about the POI from the web site run by the POI operator themselves, you should be fine. However if you take the same information from a collection (your difference between 4 and 1), then the maintainer of that collection

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal status of certain mapping activities

2015-09-16 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/16/2015 6:03 AM, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: Case 1: Is it legal/desired to look up the address of a particular POI on online maps like Bing map (https://www.bing.com/maps/), search.ch (http://map.search.ch), Google Maps (https://www.google.ch/maps/) or Swiss cantonal geoportals to