However, the creative work in creating a map is in the search of map symbols - the colour and thickness of the lines, the precision in which they are drawn, etcetera. The spatial data on which the map is based are not part of the 'creative' work on the map.
Andre Engels
Grin wrote:
Creating a map is a creative work while making an almost exact copy of a picure is not. That is what matters regarding copyright.
(I don't know how much work is needed to create a map - probably it's not that scary nowadays, being able to trace aerial photos - but I guess it's many magnitude more work than going to British Museum and taking a photo. I wouldn't debate that it contains creative work, and lots of it.)