Using the term "import" suggests some sort of copy of a database rather than an independant researching of facts.
Facts are not protected IP. Databases are in Canada. So making your own database of facts is fine. The issue will be if all or a significant portion were copied from someone else's database and whether a court of law finds that it constitutes a copy. An automated tool that scraped the Canada Post website for this info would probably be seen differently than a spreadsheet built through individual research using a variety of sources. All that said, Canada Post tried to sue when a group crowd-sourced the locations of postal codes. So even if you are in the right, there might still be a mess to deal with. -- Amos Hayes Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre Carleton University, Canada https://gcrc.carleton.ca aha...@gcrc.carleton.ca On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:09, Justin Tracey <j3tra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site? > > - Justin > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca < > talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those >> we have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise >> outlets' parent businesses already appear in our database. Those such >> locations are now marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets. The >> node for each such post office location just has to be positioned right >> next to its respective parent business. You can determine what each parent >> business is by looking on Canada Post’s own website, or by doing a simple >> web search for the postal code of each such outlet. With this, we are in a >> position to immediately add nearly 700 more Canada Post outlets across the >> country to OSM. This would bring the progress of this project to a >> completion measure of just under 48 percent. >> >> >> >> - David E. Nelson >> >> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:DENelson83> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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