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

[Kathleen Lu]

I would not copy the address from booking.com if the original is wrong
(though confirmation is okay if the original is correct).
Classification I think you can rely on your own judgement rather than
booking.com's. I wouldn't expect theirs to be more reliable since they
can have their own classification criteria that could differ from
OSM's.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:29 PM Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk
<legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> Name is from note.
>
> Confirmation of existence and location would be from booking.com,
> as note failed to make it clear (mentions different address than its location).
>
> Chalet classification would be based on booking info (what kind of
> accommodation can be rented).
>
>
> Jan 5, 2021, 22:21 by kathleen.lu at mapbox.com:
>
> 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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