<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Using the term "import" suggests some sort of copy of a database rather than an independant researching of facts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Facts are not protected IP. Databases are in Canada. So making your own database of facts is fine. The issue will be if all or a significant portion were copied from someone else's database and whether a court of law finds that it constitutes a copy. An automated tool that scraped the Canada Post website for this info would probably be seen differently than a spreadsheet built through individual research using a variety of sources. </div><div><br></div><div>All that said, Canada Post tried to sue when a group crowd-sourced the locations of postal codes. So even if you are in the right, there might still be a mess to deal with.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">--</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Amos Hayes</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Carleton University, Canada</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="https://gcrc.carleton.ca" target="_blank">https://gcrc.carleton.ca</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="mailto:ahayes@gcrc.carleton.ca" target="_blank">ahayes@gcrc.carleton.ca<br></a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:09, Justin Tracey <<a href="mailto:j3tracey@gmail.com">j3tracey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site?</div><div><br></div><div> - Justin<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those we have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise outlets' parent businesses already appear in our database. Those such locations are now marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets. The node for each such post office location just has to be positioned right next to its respective parent business. You can determine what each parent business is by looking on Canada Post’s own website, or by doing a simple web search for the postal code of each such outlet. With this, we are in a position to immediately add nearly 700 more Canada Post outlets across the country to OSM. This would bring the progress of this project to a completion measure of just under 48 percent.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">- David E. Nelson</p><p class="MsoNormal"><<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:DENelson83" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:DENelson83</a>></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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