[OSM-legal-talk] tesco store location data

[David Prime]

All,

I was looking at the tesco store finder page and noticed their API was very
simple: a lat/lon and a radius in miles to specify a search circle for the
results. I set the radius to 1000 miles and put the centre in London and
got all the Tesco locations, along with decent metadata, in the UK.

Now, my question is whether I should import this into OSM. Obviously the
data is very useful (every store is categorised: metro, express, extra,
etc) but the licencing situation is murky. Anyone want to weight in on
whether I should do an import?

As it happens, this trick (or similar tricks) works well on a lot of retail
sites (gyms, etc).

Cheers,
Dave
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