[OSM-dev] places of business listings

[Tom Hughes]

On 18/06/14 19:47, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:

> YAPIS is something that can assist in it. I don't know the project well
> but it seems to extract POI from Foursquare and GeoCaching and something
> else.
>
> Examples:
> POI from Foursquare for Bonn
> http://yapis.geoclub.de/foursquare.php?lat=50.7358511&lon=7.1006599
> POI from Foursquare for Kópavogur
> http://yapis.geoclub.de/foursquare.php?lat=64.0886611&lon=-21.826357252719
>
> Users can use this info to add to the map using normal OSM editors, I
> just noticed a couple of these yesterday in Kópavogur.

Are you sure the data is appropriately licensed? The URL suggests that 
the data has come from foursquare which almost certainly means it can't 
legally be added to OSM.

Tom

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