Chris, are you aware of the other existing free postcode projects, for example freethepostcode.org or those available from npemap.org.uk?
Also it's my understanding that you would have to "share-alike", i.e. under the same license, the postcodes that you've taken from OSM. John On 30 Oct 2009, at 21:43, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Punted to legal-talk > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Brierley > Sent: 30 October 2009 9:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSM-newbies] Attribution > > Hi all, > Quick question if anyone is able to help me! > > I'm currently working on a project to gather postcode address > information, > to effectively create a free, open version of the Royal Mail PAF file. > The dataset we are gathering is currently public domain, although > this may > be changing to CCBYSA or the Open Database Licence. > > Since there is a wealth of postcode/address data available within > the OSM > dataset, I would like to incorporate it into the address data we are > collecting. Obviously, since the OSM data is currently CCBYSA, if we > do > parse the relevant data from the dataset, it needs attribution. I am > not > sure what constitures attribution though, is it enough to include > the source > as Open Street Map on all imported records, or does it require more > than > just saying that the data came from OSM? > > Finally, the project aims also include a query API to allow third > party > sites to send a postcode and get a street address in return. If a > street > address is queried that originated from the OSM dataset, does the > returned > data need to inlude the source or other attribution data? > > Many thanks, > Chris Brierley > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
