Jack Stringer wrote: > If I was to get a copy of the Electoral Roll, could I use that to get > a list of House Names, Street Names, and Postcodes and then use that > to create a tick list of houses. If we have a list of stuff that we > know should exist then we could use it to make sure the map has all > the data for the area. I have looked at the feed the postcode site and > though it provided > postcodes it does not help us work out what areas still need postcode > data adding to them etc. It would be nice to have a list of postcodes > that we have and a list we should have then do some math and we have a > list of the ones we need to find > This I think could also expand to other POI stuff. For example it > would only take a short wile to get all the addresses of Burger Kings > in the UK. If the BK is already mapped then we could add the address > to the POI so giving us another known postcode location. If it is not > mapped we could add a link to the town that we need to locate the BK. > It does not need to be just BK but it could be National Trust Sites, > English Heritage Sites. Someone in the head offices of these > firms/organisations is going to have a list of sites with full address > and they are likely to be happy for us to have the data because if > their hotels, restaurants are all on the the map of choice then they > will benefit exp. as its free. Google does have a facility for > companies to add their locations in bulk. > > If I gathered the address info from their website then that should not > be an issue, should it? > Yes it is an issue - the few that I have looked at have terms and conditions that specifically restrict reuse without written permission - you should expect this on most organisations' websites. > If I was to get some of this data would there be a copyright issues? > They also hold (and claim) copyright on the pages of their sites so written permission is required before any such data are used for OSM. > Is it worth me making a wiki page with some of the info? So people > could check of places that have been found and done. > > I guess a future website would be the ability for firms to add their > own info to the map. Using a form and a OSM window so they can put > their address in and add the location plus the usual info. But I don't > have the geek powers for that. > > People, companies, organisations can already add anything to the database right now. They could render a map (or pay someone to do it) with their locations on.
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