[OSM-talk-ie] eircode question
moltonel 3x Combo
moltonel at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 15:32:50 UTC 2015
On 17/07/2015, Richard Cantwell <manaboutcouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
That was my understanding as well. Because the actual eircodes belong
to the PMLH company, but corresponding textual addresses and
coordinates belong to the GeoDirectory db, which is itself copyrighted
and has TOS attached.
> I'll let you know if the MD agrees with me.
Thanks. Of course we'd need a formal statement, not just an oral one ;)
> Automagically scraping the finder.eircode.ie site is a
> grey area, I would caution against doing that for the moment.
I don't think that anybody is planning that yet, this is mainly food
for thought.
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