Hello, I'm working for a small delivery company and they're using an internal Java-based desktop software for managing their deliveries and customers. We have the lat/lon coordinates (from a commercial geocoding service) of our customers and my boss asked me if it's possible to display them over an OSM map inside our desktop software.
My approach would be to setup an own map tile server on Linux with Apache and mod_tile. Then I would write a small map viewer in Java which downloads the map tiles and displays them in our software. I would then write a drawing routine which displays the coordinates of our customers (as red dots) over the OSM tiles. Now I have the following two legal questions: As far as I have understood from the "Common License Interpretations" wiki page, this is would be a "collective work" since the OSM layer is kept separate and independent from our own data (and our own data has not beeen created by looking on the OSM map). Is this correct? When I attribute/credit the OSM maps correctly inside my map viewer (text & hyperlinks) would this be a legal use of the OSM map data? If so - would it also be legally ok if I would create a "print map" functionality inside my map viewer (also with correct attribution)? If not, I would of course have to use a commercial map data provider since I absolutely want to stay legal. Thanks in advance & big respect to all the OSM contributors, svn
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