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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hello all,</span><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I work for a company that has a system that allows customers to request location-specific information. E.g. they can drop a request a specific latitude and longitude, and those requests are then answered by users of our app. I just want to clarify that my understanding is correct based on the current license and the proposed guidelines.</span><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Q: Would using OSM data to get the app users' countries from their latitude and longitude (to find nearby tasks) require us to open our database for redistribution? </div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><i><br></i></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><i>It seems like this probably would not, by any standard, since we don't even store the data.</i></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; font-size: 12pt;">Q: More confusingly, if we used OSM to get the geocode a latitude/longitude (or reverse geocode an address) for a dropped request, would the database of requests (and private responses) be open? </span></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px; font-size: 12pt;"><i>My understanding is that the database of locations<->geocodes would need to be made available to others, or alternatively that the locations would be a produced work and that we should place a copyright on the map displaying the data.</i></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks for your help!</div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Justin </div> </div></body>
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