[OSM-legal-talk] Is it OK to copy info from booking.com?

[Kathleen Lu]

I'm rather confused by what you are saying you would be copying.
The name and address are from the note, not booking.com
Use of the tourism=chalet vs the tourism=hotel tag appears to be your
opinion based on OSM tagging schemes and looking at the photographs,
not a booking.com data entry. Based on the URL, booking.com appears to
think it's a hotel.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 6:11 AM Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk
<legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> As I understand, copying parts or individual entries from booking.com
> would be against rules.
>
> But I want to confirm this before documenting or claiming this elsewhere.
>
> Use case:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2465448 was opened reporting
> existence of a hotel
>
> Based on mapped address I located its entrance at booking.com
> and equivalent websites
>
> Using that I established that tourism=chalet operates there under
> the name reported by note.
>
> Can I create tourism=chalet object on the OSM?
>
> I expect not, as it would be copying part of booking.com database -
> and even if my copying would not be systematic, then many mappers copying
> different entries would become a systematic copying.
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