![]() ![]() I would be quite upset if somneone used the data to make money. I have spent countless hours GPSing stuff, obtaining data, dealing with conflciting data, etc. Many people have GPSed stuff and gave it to me to add to My Trails with the understanding it was for My Trails not commerical use. Someone converting the maps to another format without maintaining copyright protection against commerical use, opens the door to the data being used commerically. So I cannot (and it would violate copyright) allow the data to be used for commerical use. I have also been provided some government data (mostly from Cities and Counties) free of change on the condition that it not be used for commerical use. But thousands of the trails are copyrighted by someone else and have been provided me on the condition they only be used for noncommerical use. The vast majority of the 100s of thousands of trails are from government sources. Take my map set My Trails which is compiled with the free version of cggpsmapper and is copyrighted. ![]() But some of the data in the maps is copyrighted and has use restrictions besides the copyright of the map itself. Most of the data sources for these maps are not copyrighted and have no use restrictions. Map authors are certianly free to give others permision to do something like this and I probably would too with proper protection of the data. How would this be done? With or without Xmap? Third party software? Edited Januby yogazooĪs snowfleurys correctly points out free of cost does not mean free of copyright protection. Or maybe it's from raw vector data into delorme format. I'm very interested in Totemlakes conversion and if it's from garmin format to delorme format. I would not consider Garmin made maps "Custom" would you? But it's entirely possible that I'm wrong and the OP should clarify. The free maps with installer files can all be loaded into MapSource and henceforth loaded into a Garmin GPS of your choosing.The OP is clearly talking about either the custom maps found in places like GPSfiledepot since he described loading them from MapSource or is confusing the term "custom" with something else. I make alot of free maps for Montana and If you could use them on a Delorme than that would be awesome. I guess someone could place a notice in the installer file requesting that the data not be used or transferred to anything other than Garmin units but the maps were made to be used on a GPS and who cares if a map created for free to be used on a Garmin GPS is used on a different brand of GPS. ![]() "Most" of these maps are created with free "personal" versions of the CGPSmapper program and cannot be sold implying no real legal copyright protection. "Custom Maps" in the exact context I used are vector maps created with versions of CGPSmapper. ![]()
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