[Openstreetmap] Re: [Geowanking] freeing the postcode database

[SteveC]

* @ 08/08/05 11:17:40 PM pramsey at refractions.net wrote:
> Steve,
>   I'm from Canada, so I may not have the UK situation sussed, but it  
> seems to me that it would be far better to use the Google Maps API to  
> provide a street base map, and set up a UI so people can (a) find  
> their house and click on it to add a marker and (b) enter their  
> postal code. Once you have enough information entered, depending on  
> how accurate you want to be, you post-process the whole database to  
> find average centre points for each postal code.

This would be a derived work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derived_work

Google and/or their data provider will lawyer you to death.

Happily we're negotiating to do the same thing with other high
resolution data.

> Oh, corollary hack: Google Maps UK can be made to do geocoding,  
> right? Search the web for full UK addresses, push them through the  
> Google Maps geocode, then store the postal code / location pairs in  
> your database.  Again, gather a pile of data so you can do some  
> statistical data cleansing at the end.

Again, you don't own the data and if you publish it you'll have a large
legal bill.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/