On 05/11/12 17:27, David Prime wrote:
All,
I was looking at the tesco store finder page and noticed their API was
very simple: a lat/lon and a radius in miles to specify a search
circle for the results. I set the radius to 1000 miles and put the
centre in London and got all the Tesco locations, along with decent
metadata, in the UK.
Now, my question is whether I should import this into OSM. Obviously
the data is very useful (every store is categorised: metro, express,
extra, etc) but the licencing situation is murky. Anyone want to
weight in on whether I should do an import?
Just look at the bottom of their page:
"© Tesco.com 2012 All rights reserved"
So the answer, as always with this sort of question, is no we cannot use
that data without written permission of the copyright holder to use this
data in OSM for any purpose. I don't think that is likely to be
forthcoming.
As to whether an import would be a good thing if the permission was
available, personally I would say no. I would say make the data
available to local mappers, either as a straight data or some kind of
overlay and allow locals to use the data to merge it with local
knowledge and what is already in OSM.
--
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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