GPS & Cartography
Maps: can we help ourselves?
Submitted by Bèrto ëd Sèra on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 13:00.It's a good question. Maps and navigation software aren't the most expensive things on earth, yet it's still unclear to me why should one pay to obtain what in principle ought to be absolutely public information. There also is a far more worrying reason: since there is no other way to prove that you have been copying, commercial chart publishers DO insert false information in what they publish (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs).


