I'm interested in OSM POI data for use in an application. I want to use it in the following manner. The user of the application will be able to search for POIs and use them if present. If not present or incorrect I would like to take that data, under the license agreement of the application where the user relinquishes the ownership of this specific data, and update my database with it. This improves the database to other application users. I would then like to turn around and use that information to update the OSM database on an ongoing periodic basis. This improves OSM for all users. I believe that updating the OSM database upholds share-alike. I do wonder if frequency matters though and what is acceptable. Of course there will be attribution for the data in the application. The concern I have revolves around taking the user data and using that to update the OSM database. Is there any problem with this under the contributor terms? I believe at this point that I own the data and can then turn around with little concern and update OSM with it but I want to make sure that this is acceptable and there aren't any legal concerns for the data being imported to OSM.
Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
