[OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data
matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de
matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de
Tue Dec 17 00:10:34 UTC 2019
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2019 um 01:00 Uhr
> Von: "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>
> it will contain a lot of postcode information from the original OpenStreetMap database,
> in adapted/translated form. Whether the amount is sufficient to be considered substantial
> will have to be evaluated based on the actual db that is created/the actual numbers.
> To create an accurate postcode polygon from point features you will need a lot of them,
> so probably already a handful of them would be considered substantial.
There are 5,650,789,072 nodes in OSM database. But the EU database directive wants to
protect the investment (in money). If it was damn hard to collect the nodes belonging
to the postcodes, only a few thousand nodes might be more substantial.
I think, that's a moralistic point of view. I'll neither collect a substantial part
of the whole OSM database, nor you could proof that there was big investment made to
collect the data. Since the users are working for free, the only investment are the
servers.
Like I said, that's a moralistic point of view.
I've got an offer today to get the data for about 3,500 Euro. This allows me to select
the data and even publish the postal code and the merged postal geometries with attribution.
It's another non-free dataset, but it solves my problem.
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