RE: FN-FORUM: Ordnance Survey map data

date posted 16th May 2007 14:31

Tony,

If the original grid locations were taken from an OS source (paper or
mapdata) then the OS can claim copyright. You would need to use a GPS and
go out and record the LAT/LNG. It's no different than taking a passage out
of a book sending that to someone so they can use it as a quote in their
work. It is still copyright covered. Check out creative commons website
http://creativecommons.org It does sound silly but the OS are very
protective because they spend many millions each year making sure the
coordinates are accurate.

Peter Agambar BSc(Hons) MBCS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Tony
> Crockford
> Sent: 16 May 2007 14:22
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Ordnance Survey map data
>
>
> 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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