[Talk-GB] Importing Website Data

[Gregrs]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:15:08PM +0000, paulmgillard at gmail.com wrote:

>If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public 
>facing website ('store finder' page) is there any reason we can't do 
>such imports without discussion with/permission from the company 
>concerned?

I believe the problem is licencing. Just because the data is publicly 
accessible on a company's website doesn't mean that it has been released 
under a licence compatible with that of OpenStreetMap. In practice I 
would imagine that most companies would be pleased to have the locations 
of their stores/branches on OpenStreetMap, but another issue is that 
some of the data might be derived from other sources such as a Royal 
Mail database.

Thanks,
Greg

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