Hi Paul, On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:15:08PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public facing website ('store finder' page) is there any reason we can't do such imports without discussion with/permission from the company concerned?
I believe the problem is licencing. Just because the data is publicly accessible on a company's website doesn't mean that it has been released under a licence compatible with that of OpenStreetMap. In practice I would imagine that most companies would be pleased to have the locations of their stores/branches on OpenStreetMap, but another issue is that some of the data might be derived from other sources such as a Royal Mail database.
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