Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Warin
On 19-Dec-17 05:42 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote: 18.12.2017 19:14, Frederik Ramm пишет: Hi, On 12/18/2017 03:09 PM, SK53 wrote: Personally, I'd also be chary of turning OSM into a repository of scraped data rather than one of surveyed geodata. And more: the more imports you do, the more

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Ilya Zverev
18.12.2017 19:14, Frederik Ramm пишет: Hi, On 12/18/2017 03:09 PM, SK53 wrote: Personally, I'd also be chary of turning OSM into a repository of scraped data rather than one of surveyed geodata. And more: the more imports you do, the more OpenStreetMap becomes an IT project where computer

[Talk-GB] OpenRailwayMap

2017-12-18 Thread Paul Berry
A nice little social media boost courtesy of Tim Dunn: https://twitter.com/MrTimDunn/status/942751174922555393 There's an Open Railway Map of the world and the level of detail is incredible http://www.openrailwaymap.org/ Regards, *Paul*

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] "Secret" nuclear bunkers under London and Birmingham

2017-12-18 Thread Miguel Sevilla-Callejo
It depends on the license of the data and if it's a trusted source (if data is reliable). --  Miguel Sevilla-Callejo from my mobile  El 17/12/2017 13:33, "Andy Mabbett" escribió: > We all know, I expect, about the Anchor Exchange[1] in Birmingham, and > the

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/18/2017 03:09 PM, SK53 wrote: > Personally, I'd also be chary of turning OSM into a repository of > scraped data rather than one of surveyed geodata. And more: the more imports you do, the more OpenStreetMap becomes an IT project where computer nerds script, collect, convert, conflate,

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Gregrs
Hi Paul, On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:15:08PM +, paulmgill...@gmail.com wrote: If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public facing website ('store finder' page) is there any reason we can't do such imports without discussion with/permission from the company concerned?

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/12/17 13:15, paulmgill...@gmail.com wrote: Reading all the talk of Walmart and Shell imports recently got me to wondering why we can't be doing more of this kind of thing. If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public facing website ('store finder' page) is there

Re: [Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread Dan S
Hi, People have mentioned this before. The conversation usually then goes to copyright (and the question of whether simple facts (such as addresses, opening hours etc) can be copyrighted), then in fact it's database rights that are probably the main barrier.* I'm not central to all of this, nor a

[Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

2017-12-18 Thread paulmgillard
Hi, Reading all the talk of Walmart and Shell imports recently got me to wondering why we can't be doing more of this kind of thing. If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public facing website ('store finder' page) is there any reason we can't do such imports without