<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div style>I'd like to use mapquest's open geocoding api in a webapp i'm developing. Mapquest's open api uses OSM data as the source. My question is this:</div><div style>
<br></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">Let's say i'm developing a website which allows users to create blogs (or something) and associate them with a location. I would like to use the mapquest open geocoding api to do geocoding of the address information, to support location based searches and plotting of those blogs on a map. But seeing as this api is based openstreetmap data i'm a little confused as to the license implications.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3b._If_I_have_data_derived_from_OSM_data.2C_do_I_have_to_distribute_it.3F" style="color:rgb(0,154,222);text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3b._If_I_have_data_derived_from_OSM_data.2C_do_I_have_to_distribute_it.3F</a><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">This FAQ would seem to suggest that if i were to use mapquest's osm-based api to build my webapp, i would need to make my website's db publicly available under the Open Database License. My website's db would technically be considered a "Derivative Database". Is this correct?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">Thanks,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16px">-Jordan</span><br></div></div>