[Geowanking] Re: SRTM void fill

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 04 Jan 2008 22:12, you wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2008 18:26, Anselm Hook wrote:
> > shame about the copyrighted source data; i did not know that - had
> > assumed it was all acceptably free.
>
> If you are talking about Jonathan de Ferranti's void fillings, there are
> very small areas, if any, that are filled in from copyrighted sources.
> So small, I think it could be made a case that the use is fair use.
>
> It is a very impressive work de Ferranti has done in this area.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kjetil

That's the one. The area I'm interested in is Scotland where the site quotes 
that gaps are filled using "local mapping", which I take it is Ordnance 
Survey. It doesn't say whether it's out of copyright or in-copyright maps - 
but the site seems to imply that commercial flight simulators have used 
similar data in the Alps without copyright problems. What I want to use it 
for is Freemap (OpenStreetMap based site geared towards UK walkers) - I don't 
want to restrict commercial use of the site - do people think it'll be ok?

Thanks,
Nick