[Talk-us] licence? | Re: [Imports] Importing data from alltheplaces.xyz

[Rory McCann]

That site is “A growing set of web scrapers designed to output 
consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as 
possible.”

I don't think it's CC0 licenced. It's a collection of other databases. 
Have they gotten permission from all the business that they scrape that 
they can licence this resultant data as CC0? I don't think so.

They could claim the data is CC0, or that the moon is made of cheese, 
but that doesn't mean the data is CC0.

I don't think you can import this.

On 22.08.20 14:04, Kun Attila wrote:
> Dear OSM community,
> 
> I've been mapping Moundsville, WV nowadays (one of my friends live there 
> so i chose that location). I'm ottwiz on OSM 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ottwiz) from Hungary. Sometimes i 
> didn't know how to publish imports correctly  from 
> https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/( it has CC-0 with waiver license), because 
> i never imported anything. I already talked in US slack, and they saw no 
> problems with importing these data, just they warned me they can't be 
> 100% accurate, because the "spider" bot takes the data from websites 
> that publish their coordinates on a map, and sometimes it can be like 
> 100-200 (or more) yards off the place. Without further ado, I only 
> imported those which are 100% accurate. (checked on other maps, that's 
> why, but of course there is some that is on correct position on Google, 
> but not in this database, so i omitted those ones, because taking stuff 
> from Google is not complying with OSM rules). I also put a "Taco Bell" 
> store, which address is 103 Lafayette Ave, Moundsville, WV 26041. It's 
> between two shops (which have 101 and 105 Lafayette Ave respectively), 
> so it was easy to guess the location.
> 
> It's a thing that I already finished my importing, just someone told me 
> if i didn't go to the location, I shouldn't use "survey" for source. OK, 
> i got it.
> So, if nobody has any questions, i'd leave the already imported stuff 
> alone(it's like 15 shops around Lafayette avenue, changesets which 
> contain them: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/89655873 ; 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/89742498); , and open a case in 
> the catalogue and a small wiki page that i did this import on OSM. 
> Sorry, just this is my first import, so i didn't know i had to take 
> these steps.
> 
> Ottwiz
> 
> 
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