[OSM-talk-ie] eircode question

[Donie Kelly]

Hi Richard

While you’re asking can you ask will app developers be able to query the database as the website does currently? Even with the same usage restrictions it would be useful. That way apps could be built to navigate to the postcodes.

Donie

> On 17 Jul 2015, at 15:16, Richard Cantwell <manaboutcouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> As some of you are probably aware the sister company of my employer is part of the Eircode consortium (AutoAddress) I will have a word with the MD next week and get clarity on use restrictions.
> 
> My current view is that the codes themselves are not copyrighted, but the ECAF (flat file with postal address and Eircode) and ECAD (database with aliases, co-ords and other things) are copyrighted. I'll let you know if the MD agrees with me. Automagically scraping the finder.eircode.ie site is a grey area, I would caution against doing that for the moment.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> p.s. I haven't been mapping for a while, but now that Eircode is rolled out I'll be jumping back in.
> 
> -=-
> Sent from my phone
> 
>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 14:01, moltonel <moltonel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 17 July 2015 11:30:55 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>>> What better way to ignore than come to the conclusion that the data
>>> can't be included in OSM and needs to be removed when it turns up?
>> 
>> Good point :) If Eircodes can't be collected in a public db then it's a nail in Eircode's coffin. If it can, it should be ok to scrape the data to reach a usable level of completeness and add some QA for osm.
>> 
>> Not everybody on osm-ie is on board with the 'let it fail' tactic it seems. It'd be great to reach a consensus on what to do with Eircodes in OSM that we can post on openstreetmap.ie blog once we have all the info.
>> 
>>> Right now I just want to check if there are any use restrictions that
>>> make the situation clear or if the situation is going to remain fuzzy
>>> for now.
>> 
>> Yep, let's check how fuzzy this is. First person to send a copy of the Eircode snailmail wins.
>> -- 
>> Vincent Dp
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