Am 17.07.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Colm Moore: > Hi, > > Adding individual Eircodes shouldn't be a problem. Adding the whole database > is another matter. Facts can't be copyrighted, databases can. > > So just like I can read the name of an office on a sign and add it to OSM, I > can do the same when I read the Eircode off their business card. > > On 17 July 2015 11:30:55 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: >> What better way to ignore than come to the conclusion that the data >> can't be included in OSM and needs to be removed when it turns up? > > Whatever the merits or de-merits of the system, it is the official post code > system. I map a lot of business. Some of them (gambling, e-cigarettes), I > would prefer not to map, but on OSM I'm a mapper, not an activist. If you > don't want to add Eircodes, don't. But I think it would be wrong to delete > Eircodes. > The problem is that we are naturally not mapping "one" eircode. It is completely open if simply splitting a task that would be illegal for one entity do to over a large group (aka crowd sourcing) suddenly makes it legal.
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