On Sunday 28 October 2007 15:49:51 Tom Higgy wrote:
> I'm about to go out and help deliver some neighbourhood forum leaflets
> in our ward. Although my dad is using the maps, I'm not and am going on
> where he says the boundaries are. If I use the trace (filtered, of
> course!) to see where our ward boundary is, does that constitute a
> derived work?

Would you be able to find your route so accurately if you weren't taking 
information from a person who's taking information from an allegedly 
copyrighted map with an allegedly incompatible license?

... 

A related question might be: what if you followed some procession around the 
boundary that is intended to be public... 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A805871
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_the_bounds

choice quote: "Although modern surveying techniques make the ceremony 
obsolete" (not for *some* sorts of modern surveying techniques... ;)

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