Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/29 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com: That's the Berne Convention at work. Not every country has signed it. And at least in the U.S., you cannot copyright a fact of the world. The shape of a building and the walls inside it are not copyrightable. An image which depicts them might be, if it

[OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Peter
Hello everyone, part of my PhD is to automatically model indoor environments from photographed evacuation plans. While there is still some way to go until this will be possible, I thought about suggesting this method to the OSM community as a fast and easy way of collecting data about indoors.

Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote: Is it only usable, when there is no copyright sign written on the plan? Almost everything is copyrighted by default. So the question is whether the information contained within can still be used (as with a road sign or the sign on the front of a

Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/28 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote: Is it only usable, when there is no copyright sign written on the plan? Almost everything is copyrighted by default. So the question is whether the information contained within can still be used (as

Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Thread Gregory
On 28 September 2011 19:06, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/9/28 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: On 9/28/2011 10:56 AM, Michael Peter wrote: Is it only usable, when there is no copyright sign written on the plan? Almost everything is copyrighted by default.

Re: [OSM-talk] Using photographed evacuation plans for indoor modeling?

2011-09-28 Thread Russ Nelson
Richard Weait writes: Copyright is earned in a work regardless of the existence of a copyright symbol on the work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright That's the Berne Convention at work. Not every country has signed it. And at least in the U.S., you cannot copyright a fact of the