[OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

[Peter]

But what if this is just a layer above the OSM data technically?

Regards
Peter

On 08.07.2016 15:15, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> Maps.me made an announcement in the last update that they are using
> Booking.com data to show hotels and allow reserving hotel rooms from
> within the app. I doubt Booking.com released their data with a
> permissive license.
>
> Janko Mihelić
>
> pet, 8. srp 2016. u 14:54 Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
> <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> napisao je:
>
>     According to [1] if someone combines non-horizontal layers together,
>     the results must be shared under the ODBL.
>
>     From my investigation it appears that the MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME>
>     app [2] is combining
>     OSM hotels with non-OSM hotels.
>
>     https://tianjara.net/hosted/maps.me-1.png is a screenshot from the
>     app. Hotel A appears in the app,
>     but as far as I can tell was never in OSM but rather one of the hotels
>     they've added to their app from Booking.com. Hotel B is from OSM.
>
>     This is the area
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-33.87758/151.20447
>
>     There are other examples of this too like this hotel
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/196622136 which in the app shows up
>     next to their supplemented data like this
>     https://tianjara.net/hosted/maps.me-2.png
>
>     Am I correct that in order to be complaint with the license
>     MAPS.ME <http://MAPS.ME>
>     either need to make this data available under the ODBL or remove all
>     OSM hotels from their app?
>
>     [1]
>     http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Community_Guidelines/Horizontal_Map_Layers_-_Guideline#Examples_of_where_you_DO_need_to_share_your_non-OpenStreetMap_data
>     [2] version 6.2.2-Google Data version: 160621
>
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