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Guide for indoor shopping mall? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I've decided to tackle an indoor shopping mall near me. This will be shops within a larger structure, walking paths, and other features. Is there a guide anywhere for doing this correctly?

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[–] Zwiebel 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess this would be your starting point:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Indoor_Tagging

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dmall

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, this link included some good examples to look at as well.

[–] Zwiebel 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ideally you take a picture of an emergency evacuation plan, use a scanner app to remove the distortion, and then put it as background in JOSM to trace the layout

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

@Zwiebel @openstreetmap

Don't copy from maps you don't have permission to use.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright#Proprietary_data

[–] Zwiebel 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't think they are copyrighted? They are made according to ISO23601

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is actually a really interesting case. On one hand, there is typically a specialized company involved creating those maps. On the other hand, the mall which requested them is, by law, required to create them and to put them at visible places in the mall (thus "publishing" them). According to the European Database Law, they would thus not be eligible for copyright and should be considered public domain!

However, I wouldn't build a multi-million company on it...

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 2 points 3 weeks ago

@Zwiebel @openstreetmap
I would expect ISO to be among the last organisations in the world to suggest that copyright should be waived for something or that there should be an open license.

Of course I'm not going to check in this instance because as a typical ISO standard it is obscenely expensive.

[–] amapanda@en.osm.town 1 points 3 weeks ago

@Zwiebel @InsertUser OSM is trying to be very very careful about copyright

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

What about a picture of a 3d model?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

The same applies to airports and other large structures.