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DonaldM


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17th Jun 2013
Open Piste Map
Date Posted: 16.13hrs on Mon 19 Mar 12
[openpistemap.org]

Have anyone seen this? I have just recently found it but the site is very slow. It appears to have only Glenshee right now.

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tim1mw


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Re: Open Piste Map
Date Posted: 20.31hrs on Mon 26 Mar 12
It's been posted here before, I offered them my GoogleEarth overlay data, but there are copyright issues which mean that they can't use it, although I did send them some GPS traces from Glenshee, which may have been used for the Glenshee map.

Note: Appologies to anybody who has tried to download my GoogleEarth overlays recently, I run my own server and the processor keeps overheating and causing it to shut down. It will be fixed eventually...
andytb


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18th Jun 2013
Re: Open Piste Map
Date Posted: 07.19hrs on Tue 27 Mar 12
If you made the overlays, and you are offering the overlays, there are no copyright issues? Are they just suckers for doing everything from scratch?
jabuzzard


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Re: Open Piste Map
Date Posted: 09.26hrs on Tue 27 Mar 12
There are copyright issues, if the georeferencing at any stage is derived from Ordnance Survey data. It makes getting anything done in OSGB36 difficult without the OS claiming it is a derived work. Fortunately the original stuff is now out of copyright, but you need an old map to base your work from.
tim1mw


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Re: Open Piste Map
Date Posted: 21.24hrs on Tue 27 Mar 12
jabuzzard Wrote:
There are copyright issues, if the georeferencing at any stage is derived from Ordnance Survey data. It makes getting anything done in OSGB36 difficult without the OS claiming it is a derived work. Fortunately the original stuff is now out of copyright, but you need an old map to base your work from.


Yes, in addition, if the information was derrived from the Google Earth images then Googles T&C's place a similar derivative claim on the work. Since I made use of OS map overlays on Google Earth and Google Earth images in addition to my own GPS traces for Glenshee and Cairngorm, my work was unuseable for open piste map. The part of the work which is "mine" has a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence on it, so there are most definitly no issues on my part.
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