[OSM-newbies] FW: Attribution

Chris Brierley chrislbrierley at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 31 10:25:23 GMT 2009


I'm aware of both of those projects, but they aim to gather postcodes and
latitude longitude data. My aim at the moment is to create a database
containing street addresses and postcode data.

I have no problem releasing the extracted postcodes under the CCBYSA licence
that the OSM data uses, the data is intended to be free and open after all.
I'm just unsure as what I need to quote for attribution, ie whether it is
enough to state that the data came from OSM or not.

Thanks for the response,
Chris.

2009/10/31 John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net>

> 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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