i have a detailed map of santo domingo Dominican republic, how can i make this donation.. it could be a nice update to the openstreetmap
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i have a detailed map of santo domingo Dominican republic, how can i make this donation.. it could be a nice update to the openstreetmap
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Comment from Lipperlandexpress on 17 March 2010 at 06:50
And you are sure that there is no copyright on the map ?
It's usually not permitted to use proprietary maps for OSM
Comment from Anna_AG on 17 March 2010 at 14:39
HI
I too was in Santo Domingo in December and added some map detail in the Zona Colonial and also bought a highly detailed local map which I still have.
OSMers CANNOT copy maps that are in copyright or as a rule anything made by others. All the data that you add to the OSM must be your own.
Thanks for the thought, but the data is open source because the OSM mappers
give their data - we cannot take from other sources.
Cheers bri
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️⚧️ on 19 March 2010 at 13:13
Hi.
Great to hear you want to help. We need all the help we can get. However, as others have said, you have to be careful with maps. Nearly all are under copyright, and it's against the law to copy them willy nilly.
How old is your map?
Copyright expires, so a new map will be almost certainly copyrighted, but old maps might be OK.
Comment from BrEcHa on 19 March 2010 at 14:14
well.. thanks for the response.. im going to find out if the map that i have is copyrighted and how old it is..
Comment from Anna_AG on 20 March 2010 at 21:46
We really have to be careful here, old maps out of copyright could arguably add more errors or old information to the OSM map. The debate would be that no information on OSM arguably better than wrong or out of date information.
A town like Santo Domingo is rapidly expanding and changing, so any map more than about ten years old could be of little value and certainly would not show the high detailed information that we need such as utilities, banks, fuel etc etc.
Old information is usually out of date, and as such little value.
cheers bri