The British Library have replied. Aswell as the high cost of the images (~ £20,000 for email copies of the whole lot), they are also claiming copyright on them, and not allowing the open sharing of information. I don't know if it's legal, but it's certainly not totally clean to import into OSM.

Here's what they say:

> The maps are out of copyright but you cannot reproduce any images
> we supply you with without permission from the British Library.

The original pages published in the 19th century would be out of copyright. There are 2,000 A1 pages. Some places have scanning in the pages and now have digital copies. Some places that have done that claim copyright on the scanned images. It is not clear that scanning legeally gives them copyright, however I don't want to have to go up against the lawyers from the British Library. It would be much easier if they admitted that they legeally aren't claiming copyright.

It's a bit vague. One one hand the [About page](http://opendata.go.ke/page/about/) says "anybody is free to use this data for commercial or non-commercial purposes.", which implies it's OK to import into OSM.

OTOH the [terms of service](http://opendata.go.ke/page/terms-of-service) only mentions non-commerical use.

"whose information is provided on this website impose no restrictions to the non-commercial reproduction, re-publication and re-distribution of any information published on its website."

If only non-commerical usage is OK (i.e. by not mentioning commerical usage), then that's not OK for OSM import.

There is also implications that not all the data accessible there is from the same agency and not all covered by those terms of use, which is a bit unclear.

DRM is optional for worked published on the Kindle Direct Publishing store. (cf. https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2Y41NKKEUCDEF#3-13 https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A36BYK5S7AJ2NQ#3-13 https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=AT1K7B0DRETM0 ).

And no, I don't use DRM at all on these, because the CC licence forbids it, because I think DRM should never exist, and because I'm a fan of the openness.

You'll also note that I attribute "OpenStreetMap Contributors" as the author of the book(s) (cf. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0052TSHO0 )

I found a solution to this.

sly has made their mapnik styles used in "Yet another validation tool" (http://beta.letuffe.org/ or osm.wiki/Yet_another_validation_tool_for_osm_data) available here http://beta.letuffe.org/mapnik-styles/

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.

Surely it would be against the law to copy from Google Maps?

Waze is similar to OpenStreetMap, both are creating a map based on what the common man maps. But both are very different when it comes to owning and using the data. In OSM everyone can use the data, in Waze, only they can use the data, you, the person who collected it, can't use it.

This is one of the great things about OSM. It gets fixed quicker and faster.

I have a BGT-31 and I've experienced the freezing you mention. Once or twice I've left it and it'll turn itself off when it runs out of power, sometimes i just take the back off and take out the battery.

Yes, technically you shouldn't have to add the layer tag to a bridge. In theory one could deduce later on that the bridge is above something else. However the OSM convention is to include the layer tag.

I also think 'opening hours' is the best thing to use here.

You should probably apply the opening_hours tag to the road aswell, since the road is only 'open' during that time.

Yeah +1 for Kenya. I was there for a few weeks and managed to get some traces around Coast provide (that road from Mombasa to Lamu was me. That's a fun bus journey :) )

You are allowed to use OSM for commercial purposes. You are totally free to do that. However the thing you make from OSM, you have to let people copy that as much as normal OSM data. I think they want to ask people to collect all the data, then sell it back to them and not let the people who did the hard work use the data they collected.

Yes you will.

Remember all those countries where people are mapping rubbish bins started off as a blank canvas 5 years ago. The whole thing had to be mapped from scratch. Eventually your region will be full of active mappers.

Cool. I was in Ethiopia in 2006 and I added some roads from aerial imagery. I'm suprised the website says "... Map of Ethiopia (West Africa)". I didn't think Ethiopia was in West Africa...

Well that sorta depends on what you mean by distance. Do you mean a straight line distance between 2 points (a.k.a. as the crow flies)? Or do you want to travel over roads? Are you driving a car, or a motorbike, or a bicycle, or are you walking? are you in a wheelchair? All those questions can affect how you can travel over the world. Have a look at some of the routing software, like on maps.cloudmade.com to get a route between 2 points, that will tell you how long the route is.

Hello! Welcome on board. Don't worry about not knowing much, we all started somewhere! Be bold and let's all help make this map!

Definitly leave them in. Very little map data is 'useless'. Even having a map of all the postboxes is useful.

But definitly adjust the tagging. If the roads are tagged as something that they are not, then you should change them.

There is no community consensus on how to say that "this road really doesn't have a name". Have a look at osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Noname and pick something that you like.

@chilly I've fixed it now. This is a work in progress, check back often.