Hi, >From what I've read on talk-legal on more than one occasion : Deriving individual nodes and individual segments on a small scale is OK. Esp. when they are derived from raw facts (photos and gps traces). But extracting a whole bunch of nodes and segments that link up is bad.
It's not that Google does not object, but rather legal limits on copyright provisions (Fair use / Fair trading). So perhaps we can legally make a google maps based editor for doing this. But the risk of abuse by a newbie is just too great and not really worth the extra consideration needed. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM, LeedsTracker <leedstrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Sorry to open this up again, but... > > I just uploaded my first pic to http://commons.wikimedia.org It gives > the option to add a geo location for where you took the photo from. > This page gives many methods for doing that, including locating on > Google Maps or Google Earth: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding > > If I used this method to tweak the position of a feature (e.g. > building, road crossing, postbox) in OSM, would it be A Bad Thing? > > E.g. I take a photo of a level crossing, locate in in Google Maps, > upload and tag it in WikiMedia Commons - no problem it seems. > > Is this different from using the same method to adjust the level > crossing node in OSM accordingly? > > In my mind, both things are just entries in a database. WikiMedia > Commons seems happy to share this data under the same licence as the > photo I took. > > I assume Google know about this and don't object. At what point does > something become a derived work? > > yours confused, > LT > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
