Guten Tag, Simon Poole,
am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2018 um 16:14 schrieben Sie:
Am 15.05.2018 um 16:01 schrieb Hikerus:
Guten Tag, Raphael Das Gupta,
am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2018 um 15:41 schrieben Sie:
I don't understand this thread: How could it be possible to "source data from map.geo.admin.ch and use it to update OSM".
Well, by editing OSM with whatever they've learned from looking at the map(s) at map.geo.admin.ch.
Hmm - I don't really understand. I am standing here on a street and I see that a house in front of me isn't on the OSM map.
If I see that this house on map.geo.admin.ch I am not allowed to add it - I only allowed to put it not to have a look on geo.admin.ch at before?
Well - sounds a little strange to me.
In this case the contributor was directly using the position information from the copyrighted swisstopo maps to determine where to put the peaks, which is not different than any other copying. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/welcome While, naturally, the fact that something exists is not protected, one to one copying from a copyrighted source to add the data to OSM is.
So its a little bit more clear: Everything you see (eg. house, street, river) you can add - but additional data from an other source (eg. height) isn't allowed.
Ok. But there are still difficulties: My village had the wrong postal code in OSM map - so I corrected it. But the copyright of postal codes is by Swiss Post. So I did it wrong - I have to change back to the wrong one?
Hikerus