[OSM-legal-talk] tesco store location data

[Chris Hill]

On 05/11/12 17:27, David Prime wrote:
> 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?
Just look at the bottom of their page:
"© Tesco.com 2012 All rights reserved"

So the answer, as always with this sort of question, is no we cannot use 
that data without written permission of the copyright holder to use this 
data in OSM for any purpose. I don't think that is likely to be 
forthcoming.

As to whether an import would be a good thing if the permission was 
available, personally I would say no. I would say make the data 
available to local mappers, either as a straight data or some kind of 
overlay and allow locals to use the data to merge it with local 
knowledge and what is already in OSM.

-- 
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly