On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 May 2010 05:27, Jonas Minnberg <sas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The time these come in handy is when they show the streets in a residential >> area that don't otherwise have clear streetnames - usually when there are >> lots of small ways in between the buildings. Then it's practically the only >> way to know which road is named what. > > No, there is usually local government collecting this information and > if you ask nicely they usually give you the information.
Then again, the boards usually also come from local government. >> Also if EVERYTHING written down was copyrighted then getting info from >> street signs would also be breaking copyright. > > This starts getting into the debate over when a fact becomes knowledge... That doesn't matter for OSM. All things are copyrighted, you said it yourself. Whether it's "fact" or "knowledge" doesn't matter. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
