Hi - I followed last month's discussion* from afar with interest. I hope I'm not flogging an utterly dead horse here, but I made a few discoveries in comparing local maps.me data around Toronto with OSM nodes:
1) Initially, maps.me was removing obviously identical hotel nodes (same name, very close location), and replacing them with booking.com data. Non-matching OSM nodes were left, so if a mapper had put a typo in the name or tagged a different building in a hotel complex, maps.me showed both. This scenario is clearly not allowed by the OSMF guidelines. 2) Now it seems that *all* OSM hotel nodes are included, along with (some? all?) booking.com hotel properties. The booking.com nodes have a slightly higher profile, but they appear mixed together in search results. 3) The skipped nodes list (formerly at http://direct.mapswithme.com/direct/latest/skipped_nodes.lst) is now no longer published. The last version I reviewed (from 2016-07-31) was very clearly close matches to booking.com's database. In a way, since it was compared against a proprietary database, the skipped nodes list was derived from booking.com's data. I'm not sure booking.com would be happy about this use of their data. It would seem that the guidelines would only allow the mixing of a booking.com proprietary horizontal layer, paraphrasing mechanically from “restaurant” to “[hotel]”: You use OpenStreetMap as a base topographical map and make your best reasonable efforts to exclude ALL [hotel]s. You then add a layer of your own [hotel] data. I'm not seeing this in the maps.me app. cheers, Stewart *: starting here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2016-July/008468.html _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
