On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote:
> Most of this data can be
> found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have
> issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the
> maps.
Common sense and intellectual property rarely go together. The post
office want everyone to use post codes but are quite restrictive of
licensing the database. TV channels want everyone to know what programmes
they are showing but they are very restrictive over licensing of the TV
schedules. Similary, I think you might need to check with the copyright
holders of this data before including it in OSM.
There is also an issue of keeping the data up to date - having loads of
data in OSM is great, but we run the risk of it going stale if we're not
careful.
> addr:street=Bath Road
> addr:city=Bristol
> addr:postcode=BS4 3BD
> addr:country=GB
It seems to me that this data should be derrivable from the map itself.
Rather than duplicating data by adding addresses and postcodes to each
business/building, I think it would be better to figure out a good way of
deciding which street, city and postcode the building is attached to.
- Steve
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