[OSM-legal-talk] Using geocoding results in an app

[Marcel Kühn]

Thanks for your answer.

To avoid any confusion: I support and I'm willed to contribute to Open 
Source products in general, I just assume that I can't afford it with my 
current budget. So I have some additional questions:

 From what I've understood, there are several ways to make my derived 
database publicly available. One solution would be to provide a download 
link to a database dump, or, secondly, I could have a hint that people 
who wanna have the data can send me an email and I'll mail it (the 
database dump) back to them, which could help to oversee and throttle 
the traffic a bit. And finally I read that you could also provide a 
description of the "algorithm" how the data was gathered and utilized, 
which, in my case would be something like "get a mapquest key, query 
this URL with the address data, extract lat and lon from the json 
response". So, I wonder what the best possibility is in my case to 
afford using OSM data and not be financially doomed?

Additionally, I wonder what data I have to publish? On the one hand I'm 
saving ONLY the coordinates of the user, without the addresses, in a 
separate table, which consists of the user ID and his coordinates. On 
the other hand I'm saving the address and coordinates of third party 
locations, whereby the coordinates again are saved in a separate table, 
consisting of the locations ID and their respective coordinates.

Again, thanks for your help!

Marcel

Am 28.05.2014 10:03, schrieb Jukka Rahkonen:
> Marcel Kühn <kuehn.marcel at ...> writes:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I've been looking through the archive of the mailing list, yet haven't
>> found a definite answer to this. I'm building an app in which the users
>> can fill in address information for their own or other locations. This
>> address information needs to be converted to lat / loon coordinates,
>> which are then saved in the database. I've currently planned on using
>> mapquest for the geocoding, which uses OSM data.
>>
>> So, here's my question: Do I have to make the geocoded data (addresses +
>> lat / lon coordinates) available as a download? If so I'm afraid I have
>> to look for other ways to geocode my data / ditch the app since I guess
>> couldn't afford the possible traffic generated by those downloads.
>> Any help is appreciated!
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcel
>>
> It is hard to find definitive answers from this list but I have understood
> that the current interpretation is that your database would be derived from
> OSM and thus you must publish the data you collect under ODbL.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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