Re: FN-FORUM: Ordnance Survey map data

date posted 16th May 2007 14:15

Anthony Cartmell wrote:

> The intention of the copyright is to protect the work carried out by the
> OS, and the revenue they make from selling the data and licenses to use
> it. I can't see how tracing a cycle route on an OS map and then putting
> that line on my website impacts the OS in any way. But we'll have to
> see what the OS say themselves.

I may be wide of the mark here, but if I read a map, create a list of
grid references and give them to you that isn't a map.

if I then mark those points on my map then I've marked up my map.

neither of which feels to me like copyright infringement.

if I provide a marked up copy of a map then the map owner might have
something to say, but surely if you mark up a google map with points
that you got from a series of grid references then that's covered by
Google's IPR not OS, OS don't own the GR's do they? if you do, what
would the situation be with marking up a google map using Lat and Long
values converted from the list of GR's I gave you in the first instance?

my list of GR's isn't a derivative work, surely?

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