Its good to mark the data, but the open nature of the map and updates means any fake features will soon get removed.
#Trap street 2013 registration
Post navigation ← The state of Terminal 5 Registration for The State of the Map 2008 is now open → This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Apby Steve Coast. The Board would like to invite discussion on this exciting new method of protection, and will follow comments to this post closely. The community impact is now to be measured, now that these methods and tools are public. The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board feel this is a good compromise between on the one hand having only real streets and no copyright protection and on the other enforcing all downloads of data with DRM mechanisms which were found impractical.
#Trap street 2013 code
These trap streets and the trap village are un-deletable in the API due to special code to protect copyright. The OSMF has decided to go public now because we have completed an entire ‘fake village’ and placed it in southern Germany. This process was decided on secretly at the first OSMF board meeting over a year ago and many hundreds of trap streets are now present. These will be in out of the way places so that they are not noticed, but if that data turns up in a TomTom or similar device then we will be able to prosecute for infringing our data. The OpenStreetMap Foundation has decided to begin a process of entering trap streets in to our data. Similarly and in order to professionalise OpenStreetMap due to the increasing completeness and therefore value of the OpenStreetMap data we need to protect copyright. These ‘three pillars’ are the same foundations upon which many data sets are sold.
#Trap street 2013 license
Like large commercial map suppliers we are moving toward a license based upon copyright, database and contract law. In the license process, the OpenStreetMap Foundation has recognised the need for a license not just based in copyright law. Notice ‘Lye Close’ ? This pun has been put there as a trap street, there is no actual street there. OSM has a large wiki page on the subject including this picture of an A-Z map: If you copy the map then the map owner knows it was you because you couldn’t possibly have mapped these fake features. These are fake streets, churches and sometimes villages in maps that are put in on purpose. Commercial map providers have for years used ‘easter eggs’ or as cartographers know them ‘trap streets’.
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