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From: john whelan
Sent: June 16, 2020 07:16
To: Justin Tracey
Cc: David Nelson; Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment
I think you can use it to see where to look.
If there is only one building and you c
if the addresses are not geolocated via say the website/google maps, it
just becomes public domain as it's the address of the business on the
website but IANAL. If not you would never be able to scrape/collect phone
numbers or addresses for any business via their official website.
On Tue., Jun.
On 2020-06-16 10:16 a.m., john whelan wrote:
>
> Canada Post is part of federal government so there is some sort of
> commitment to Open Data floating around under the Federal government's
> open data initiative.
>
>
As referenced in another emails on this thread, Canada Post is operated
as a
Canada Post is a Crown Corporation so it kind of operates in its own world
even though it's subsidised and owned by the government. I don't think the
open government directive applied across all Crown ABCs but to the civil
service portion.
We're not doing an import of post offices in the actual
Using the term "import" suggests some sort of copy of a database rather
than an independant researching of facts.
Facts are not protected IP. Databases are in Canada. So making your own
database of facts is fine. The issue will be if all or a significant
portion were copied from someone else's
Doubt it… but it still neverless a nice addition to OSM…
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From: Justin Tracey
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:09 AM
To: David Nelson
Cc: Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment
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I think you can use it to see where to look.
If there is only one building and you can see a Canada Post logo
floating around I think it is fair game.
Canada Post is part of federal government so there is some sort of
commitment to Open Data floating around under the Federal government's open
Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site?
- Justin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca <
talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those we
> have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of
I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those we have
not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise outlets'
parent businesses already appear in our database. Those such locations are now
marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets. The node
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