[OSM-newbies] FW: Attribution

[John McKerrell]

Chris, are you aware of the other existing free postcode projects, for  
example freethepostcode.org or those available from npemap.org.uk?

Also it's my understanding that you would have to "share-alike", i.e.  
under the same license, the postcodes that you've taken from OSM.

John

On 30 Oct 2009, at 21:43, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:

> Punted to legal-talk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Chris Brierley
> Sent: 30 October 2009 9:22 PM
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-newbies] Attribution
>
> Hi all,
> Quick question if anyone is able to help me!
>
> I'm currently working on a project to gather postcode address  
> information,
> to effectively create a free, open version of the Royal Mail PAF file.
> The dataset we are gathering is currently public domain, although  
> this may
> be changing to CCBYSA or the Open Database Licence.
>
> Since there is a wealth of postcode/address data available within  
> the OSM
> dataset, I would like to incorporate it into the address data we are
> collecting. Obviously, since the OSM data is currently CCBYSA, if we  
> do
> parse the relevant data from the dataset, it needs attribution. I am  
> not
> sure what constitures attribution though, is it enough to include  
> the source
> as Open Street Map on all imported records, or does it require more  
> than
> just saying that the data came from OSM?
>
> Finally, the project aims also include a query API to allow third  
> party
> sites to send a postcode and get a street address in return. If a  
> street
> address is queried that originated from the OSM dataset, does the  
> returned
> data need to inlude the source or other attribution data?
>
> Many thanks,
> Chris Brierley
>
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