On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: > How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other > government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no > way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries > aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc. > > Add to that things like marine park boundaries, or no fishing areas > which are often defined on marine maps as just a set of GPS locations > (and there is obviously no way of physically mapping those areas), and > it seems there are a lot of things that we have to rely on getting the > data from other sources for.(I include marine park/no fishing areas as > my partners father asked about it - I see no good reason why such > features couldn't be added to OSM) > > Question is: is it legit to use park/forest boundaries taken from > government sources? If not, how on earth are we going to solve this > little problem? > > Matt > My significant other is trying to obtain national park data as defined lat and long co-ordinates. I think that putting points in on co-ordinates which are defined does not infringe anyone's copyright.
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