[Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Thu Jul 2 13:36:43 BST 2009


Jack Stringer wrote:
> As I have mentioned before I am interested in improving the data on
> Amenities such as Pubs, Fast Food places. Most of this data can be
> found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have
> issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the
> maps. ...

Sorry to pour cold water, but though they might not object, Burger King 
(for example) says
"™ & ©2009 Burger King Corporation. All rights reserved."
on its website at the bottom of the home page. It is copyright 
infringement to use this data, irrespective of your opinion of their 
possible attitude.

We're trying very hard to keep the OSM data clean from a copyright POV. 
"They won't complain" isn't good enough for us.

I imagine if you ask them, the big chains (well, everyone, but it's hard 
to ask everyone) would agree to this data being used (they might even 
have it in a more amenable form), but I think they do need to be asked 
since they do explicitly state copyright.

David




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