[Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

[James]

if the addresses are not geolocated via say the website/google maps, it
just becomes public domain as it's the address of the business on the
website but IANAL. If not you would never be able to scrape/collect phone
numbers or addresses for any business via their official website.

On Tue., Jun. 16, 2020, 10:18 a.m. john whelan, <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think you can use it to see where to look.
>
> If there is only one building and you can see a Canada Post logo
> floating around I think it is fair game.
>
> Canada Post is part of federal government so there is some sort of
> commitment to Open Data floating around under the Federal government's open
> data initiative.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 09:10 Justin Tracey <j3tracey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site?
>>
>>  - Justin
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca <
>> talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those
>>> we have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise
>>> outlets' parent businesses already appear in our database.  Those such
>>> locations are now marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets.  The
>>> node for each such post office location just has to be positioned right
>>> next to its respective parent business.  You can determine what each parent
>>> business is by looking on Canada Post’s own website, or by doing a simple
>>> web search for the postal code of each such outlet.  With this, we are in a
>>> position to immediately add nearly 700 more Canada Post outlets across the
>>> country to OSM.  This would bring the progress of this project to a
>>> completion measure of just under 48 percent.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - David E. Nelson
>>>
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