Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.03.2015 um 21:51 schrieb Jennifer Bauman: Thank you all for your responses. I apologize for the vagueness - this is a highly confidential project. I suspect you will be better served by asking your question on legal-questi...@osmfoundation.org Just as here we can naturally not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Jennifer Bauman
Thank you all for your responses. I apologize for the vagueness - this is a highly confidential project. We would like to use the Overpass API ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API) which I believe is made for read-only purposes, which is what we need. We would be well below the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Jennifer -- The OSM API does now allow or support systematically gathering data like that, which is also stated on the API wiki, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API#Terms_of_use. This OSM API is meant to support map editing applications. Even if you would gather the OSM data in some other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.03.2015 um 18:08 schrieb Jennifer Bauman: Hi, I'm thinking of using OSM in a way that I believe is different that the use cases discussed at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases and I would like to know what the license requirements would be for this use case. The

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
I'm pretty sure that Martijn means does NOT allow, rather than now. :-) So, whatever you are planning, Jennifer, hitting the editing API is probably going to get you some unwanted attention. There are other ways to access the OpenStreetMap data, and you'll want to make sure that you are using