<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I did discuss this with the local CAMRA representative responsible for the pub data, about 18 months ago. <br><br>The data in WhatPub should essentially be regarded as a commercial dataset which has value for CAMRA (for instance in persuading people to join, or as base data for the Good Beer Guide): they are unlikely to want to make it freely available to OSM.<br><br></div>On the other hand using an OSM base map ought to be a reasonable thing to do.<br><br></div>Jerry<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2015 at 15:10, Andrew Black <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewdblack@googlemail.com" target="_blank">andrewdblack@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">My concern is the quality of their location data - they suffer from the well known myth that a postcode defines the location. I have helped in a few specific cases but the local branch didn't seem interested in for example checking the locaion of pubs before uploading. </div><div class="gmail_quote">This then leads to concerns that the licence is problematic as presumably googles geocoder has been used.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Sep 2015 14:11, "Dave F." <<a href="mailto:davefox@madasafish.com" target="_blank">davefox@madasafish.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<a href="http://whatpub.com/pubs/MAN/9899/eagle-inn-salford" target="_blank">http://whatpub.com/pubs/MAN/9899/eagle-inn-salford</a><br>
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Considering CAMRA's What Pub? website is volunteer, crowd sourced, I
was mildly disappointed to see it using Google maps. I've just this
minute written an email to them explaining some of the advantages of
using OSM. I thought if any actual CAMRA members here could also
chip in it might persuade them to swap over. <a href="mailto:camra@camra.org.uk" title="Email CAMRA" target="_blank">camra@camra.org.uk.</a><br>
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It might even be possible to share databases to improve the quality
of both.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Dave F.<br>
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