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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Thanks for confirmation of address handling!

In this case I ignored how booking classified it, just
interpreted fact that you rent entire building at once
(there is a single rentable apartment for a property)
and provided images, making clear that you rent
entire cottage making it tourism=chalet


Jan 7, 2021, 21:46 by kathleen.lu at mapbox.com:

> 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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