Only the creative aspects of those collections of facts are copyrightable. You can definitively copy from Google Maps, just like Feist could copy from Rural; wh

Only the creative aspects of those collections of facts are copyrightable. You can definitively copy from Google Maps, just like Feist could copy from Rural; what you can't copy are the aspects of the maps that require creativity. As for trap streets, they don't help as much as you think; as we've seen, simply showing that copying occurred is not enough. There was a theory that the trap streets - since they were invented, not facts - could themselves be copyrighted, but in Alexandria Drafting Co. v. Amsterdam, the courts said that copying a few trap streets among a bunch of facts was too minimal to be considered infringement.