[Talk-GB] UK Licences

[Jez Nicholson]

A 'database' of stores maybe....but I believe that Stephen are talking
specifically about a single address communicated via a contact page. If the
postcode is copyrighted, then the company shouldn't be displaying it, and
you should never write it on an envelope....

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, 13:57 Silent Spike, <silentspike100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:49 PM Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see some guidance on whether data can be taken directly
>> from a business's website and entered directly into OSM. eg. on the
>> "contact us" page there is often address, postcode, phone number,
>> opening hours. This page
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:postal_code says "You can even
>> look them up on the official website of the place" which suggests you
>> can, but normal copyright of websites would suggest you can't. A clear
>> statement one way or the other would be useful (I may have missed
>> it...)
>>
>
> I'm almost certain you need permission from the company to use such data
> and that wiki page should probably be changed. There are a few companies
> I'm aware of which have granted OSM permission to use website data (at
> least in the UK), it's on another wiki page somewhere.
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