[Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 13. May 2017, at 12:27, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> A "clear no" in the sense that some of us think they're perfectly acceptable


I'm also against it, for several reasons:

1) as a mapper you don't know how to deal with them because it is not clear to what they refer (a single property, a combination of properties, the land that has the tag, etc.), and how you should treat them when you modify something

1b) ultimately this raises complexity and might prevent cautious mappers from improving the data that has these tags, because they don't know how to deal with it

2) it is circumventing the license: this is proprietary data, why would we want to distribute it (you can't use this data unless you have access to the proprietary part, it is non-free data), it's against the spirit of osm.


cheers,
Martin