Copyright

Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the… »
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Copyright, Facebook, Geotagging, Google Earth, Map Projections, Triangulations (Links), Video
Living Without Copyrighted Maps
OpenStreetMap contributor Gregory Marler moved to Durham to begin a university degree, but the OpenStreetMap project does not have a lot of data for Durham. Marler has therefore hit upon the idea that he would not only contribute Durham data… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Copyright, Tracerouting
U.S. Map Copyright Litigation, 1789-1998
J. B. Post’s page on U.S. map copyright litigation covers more than two centuries of case law. The earliest is Blunt v. Patten, an 1828 case involving a nautical survey; the latest is Alexandria Drafting Co. v. Amsterdam, a 1997… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 10:55 AM
Categories: Copyright
Jimmy Carter Accused of Map Plagiarism
Maps are taking a curious central position in the controversy over former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. A former executive director of the Carter Center resigned over the book, charging that it contained inaccuracies and… »
Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 1:02 PM
Categories: Copyright, Current Events
Yahoo! Imagery on OpenStreetMap
This is an interesting development: Yahoo! is letting OpenStreetMap use its aerial imagery. If that isn’t a boost to the project, I don’t know what is. I wonder what’s behind this move. See also The Earth Is Square and Geobloggers…. »
Posted on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 9:01 AM
Categories: Copyright, Satellite & Aerial
National Geographic on OpenStreetMap
National Geographic News has a story about the OpenStreetMap project — useful for giving it some context. Part of a series on “digital places,” with more articles forthcoming. Via OpenGeoData. See previous entries: OpenStreetMap at Where 2.0; OpenStreetMap Animations; Ed… »
Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7:07 AM
Categories: Copyright, Tracerouting
Santa Clara Sued Over Digital Map Licence Fees
In California, Santa Clara County’s digital mapping data is so expensive to licence that they prevent “all but real estate developers, utility companies and insurance companies and other deep-pocketed customers from accessing it. The fees can go into the hundreds… »
Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 12:47 PM
Categories: Copyright
OpenStreetMap at Where 2.0
Steve Coast’s Where 2.0 talk on OpenStreetMap is now available in MP3 format from ITConversations. Via OpenGeoData. See previous entries on OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap Animations; Ed Parsons on OpenStreetMap; OpenStreetMap: Manchester’s Next; OpenStreetMap to Map Isle of Wight; OpenStreetMap London Poster… »
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Categories: Conferences, Copyright, Podcasts & Audio
OpenStreetMap Animations
Brady Forrest, covering FOSS4G2006 for O’Reilly Radar, links to some fascinating animations from the OpenStreetMap project. This one tracks two days’ worth of courier activity in London: There are also videos that track the growth in GPS traces for OpenStreetMap… »
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Categories: Blogs, Conferences, Copyright, Tracerouting
Free the Maps!
U.S. government data is ostensibly public domain, but as Jared Benedict, the force behind the Libre Map Project, discovered, you still need to pay for it sometimes. Jared was trying to make USGS 1:24,000 topo maps in DRG format… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 8:20 AM
Categories: Copyright, Topo Maps & Trails
Ed Parsons on OpenStreetMap
Ordnance Survey CTO Ed Parsons has a positive take on the OpenStreetMap workshops, despite their positioning themselves as the archenemy of the Ordnance Survey: I am fully behind the efforts of Steve Coast and the OpenStreetMap movement to create copyright… »
Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 8:14 AM
Categories: Copyright
OpenStreetMap: Manchester’s Next
Having mapped approximately 90 per cent of the roads on the Isle of Wight last weekend (see previous entry), the OpenStreetMap project now turns to Manchester for its next workshop this coming weekend. Via Boing Boing. See previous entries:… »
Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 10:20 AM
Categories: Copyright, Surveying, Tracerouting
OpenStreetMap to Map Isle of Wight
Via Boing Boing, news that the OpenStreetMap project will attempt to map the entire Isle of Wight this coming weekend. OpenStreetMap’s goal is to produce freely available, copyright-free mapping data for Britain. Unlike the U.S., where government information is public… »
Posted on Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Copyright, Surveying, Tracerouting
Mapmaker Fined for Infringing Sherlock’s Copyright
A Calgary mapmaker has been fined C$8,000 for making a cheap knock-off of a competitor’s city atlas. The judge ruled that Commodore Allen’s AMI Calgary Street Atlas infringed the copyright of Sherlock Publishing’s atlas of Calgary, saying that the differences… »
Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 9:33 AM
Categories: Cities, Copyright, Publishers, Roads
Copyright Traps
Publishers frequently use “copyright traps” to prove that someone plagiarized their work. Without evidence of the actual act of plagiarism, it’s difficult to prove that someone publishing a rival phone book, dictionary or encyclopedia didn’t just copy material wholesale from… »
Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 9:51 AM
Categories: Cartography, Copyright, Mapping Errors
Forum on Open Geodata
More on the attempt to produce GIS data for the UK independent of Crown copyright (see previous entry: there will be a Forum on Open Geodata on April 14 in London; see the link for speakers and details. From the… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 1:20 AM
Categories: Copyright, GIS
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap “is an effort to produce free (CC-licensed) streetmaps of the world.” It’s in “pre-pre-pre alpha” at the moment. The idea is to get free data by running around with a GPS, analysis of aerial photography or other methods since… »
Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 10:41 AM
Categories: Copyright, GIS, GPS, Online Maps

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