I did discuss this with the local CAMRA representative responsible for the pub data, about 18 months ago.
The data in WhatPub should essentially be regarded as a commercial dataset which has value for CAMRA (for instance in persuading people to join, or as base data for the Good Beer Guide): they are unlikely to want to make it freely available to OSM. On the other hand using an OSM base map ought to be a reasonable thing to do. Jerry On 16 September 2015 at 15:10, Andrew Black <[email protected]> wrote: > My concern is the quality of their location data - they suffer from the > well known myth that a postcode defines the location. I have helped in a > few specific cases but the local branch didn't seem interested in for > example checking the locaion of pubs before uploading. > This then leads to concerns that the licence is problematic as presumably > googles geocoder has been used. > > > On 16 Sep 2015 14:11, "Dave F." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> http://whatpub.com/pubs/MAN/9899/eagle-inn-salford >> >> Considering CAMRA's What Pub? website is volunteer, crowd sourced, I was >> mildly disappointed to see it using Google maps. I've just this minute >> written an email to them explaining some of the advantages of using OSM. I >> thought if any actual CAMRA members here could also chip in it might >> persuade them to swap over. [email protected]. <[email protected]> >> >> It might even be possible to share databases to improve the quality of >> both. >> >> Cheers >> Dave F. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >> >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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