[Talk-GB] Anybody a member of CAMRA?

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I did discuss this with the local CAMRA representative responsible for the
pub data, about 18 months ago.

The data in WhatPub should essentially be regarded as a commercial dataset
which has value for CAMRA (for instance in persuading people to join, or as
base data for the Good Beer Guide): they are unlikely to want to make it
freely available to OSM.

On the other hand using an OSM base map ought to be a reasonable thing to
do.

Jerry

On 16 September 2015 at 15:10, Andrew Black <andrewdblack at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> My concern is the quality of their location data - they suffer from the
> well known myth that a postcode defines the location.  I have helped in a
> few specific cases but the local branch didn't seem interested in for
> example checking the locaion of pubs before uploading.
> This then leads to concerns that the licence is  problematic as presumably
> googles geocoder has been used.
>
>
> On 16 Sep 2015 14:11, "Dave F." <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> http://whatpub.com/pubs/MAN/9899/eagle-inn-salford
>>
>> Considering CAMRA's What Pub? website is volunteer, crowd sourced, I was
>> mildly disappointed to see it using Google maps. I've just this minute
>> written an email to them explaining some of the advantages of using OSM. I
>> thought if any actual CAMRA members here could also chip in it might
>> persuade them to swap over. camra at camra.org.uk. <camra at camra.org.uk>
>>
>> It might even be possible to share databases to improve the quality of
>> both.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave F.
>>
>>
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