<div dir="ltr">Thanks for all the feedback, we have put together some blogs to help people figure out how to play with the data, to give people an idea of what it is and how it was put together.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://blog.cybo.com/" target="_blank">https://blog.cybo.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I assumed the set we released was not yet ready for OSM but with some guidance I may be able to go back through and derive something that's more useful for you and likely others interested in working with the data. Most of our records/POIs are from several different sources, which means the way a record is compiled could influence how useful it is.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Jo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com" target="_blank">winfixit@gmail.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><div><div> If the addresses are in the data as well, we don't really need to use the lat/lon coordinates. The best way to use this kind of data, is to use it as one of several sources. So a direct import is out of the question, but using it as a shortcut and combining with what we already have plus aerial imagery plus possibly an extra lookup in other sources could be considered.<br></div><br>Of course, we don't want to be a front end for SEO techniques, so maybe the data needs to be pruned from overly commercial information and descriptions, before it is useful to us.<br><br></div>I'm downloading it too, but it takes a while. I can probably figure out a way to convert it into something usable (at a technical level).<br><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2017-11-09 2:53 GMT+01:00 Brian May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmay@mapwise.com" target="_blank">bmay@mapwise.com</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<div class="m_-3882072837438089840m_7279198783775680427moz-cite-prefix">Its critical to know where the
lat/longs came from. For example, if they came from Google Maps -
then its a no go, because Google's licensing is incompatible with
OSM. Their geocodes are not public domain, etc. Same thing applies
to many / most other commercial geocoding services. If you don't
know how the lat/longs were derived, then that is probably a show
stopper as well. <br>
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<p style="border:medium none;margin:0px 0px 13px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;max-width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">We
have open sourced our US POI data, it may not be ready for a
direct import into OSM, but we'd be willing to try to get it
there.</p>
<p style="border:medium none;margin:0px 0px 13px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;max-width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">Its
a national directory of 59 million US businesses, that has
been updated as of this summer. And should be getting another
refresh shortly.</p>
<p style="border:medium none;margin:0px 0px 13px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;max-width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">What
process is there to discuss and work to integrate this data?</p>
<p style="border:medium none;margin:0px 0px 13px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;max-width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">The
data is available under a creative commons attribution license
at <a href="https://omniplaces.cybo.com/" style="color:rgb(48,96,168);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">https://omniplaces.cybo.com<wbr>/</a></p>
<p style="border:medium none;margin:0px 0px 13px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2px;max-width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">I
would be willing to waive and/or clarify certain aspects of
the licence if needed however.</p>
<div>* I asked this same question in <a href="https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/60508/submit-open-source-poi-data" target="_blank">help.openstreetmap.org</a>, and was
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