As I have mentioned before I am interested in improving the data on Amenities such as Pubs, Fast Food places. Most of this data can be found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the maps. This also works for pubs and restaurants as they would of supplied all the info on their website. I am not copying images or the blurb on the site so I don't think it could be classed as a copyright issue. I wont be getting data from websites like yellow pages, and some of the other directory listings[1] because that data has been collected by a 3rd party and unless they given permission I would assume they would get grumpy. Copyright data is a complicated one but in this circumstance I can't see any restaurants or pubs, etc complaining about their info being available on the best map on the internet. I could see some issues with small businesses such as accountants that work from home etc. But for the moment I am not going near that kind of data.
For the moment I will only be working on GB data as I think taking on the world atm is just too much for me. I have managed to get the XML data from XAPI using wget and I have brought the data into JOSM. An example of data that I would like to add to OSM is this, name=Burger King amenity=fast_food operator=Burger King cuisine=burger phone=+44 1179 770791 addr:street=Bath Road addr:city=Bristol addr:postcode=BS4 3BD addr:country=GB url=http://www.burgerking.co.uk It would be nice to get enough data together that we could start to do a similar thing to Google with having a popup when you mouse over the fast_food icon showing you the extra details. We have the chance to supply up-to-date and relevant data. If you use the petrol station lists often found on GPS units the data is often so out of date that you keep finding closed garages. With OSM I hope this will be different because we have a large collection of people checking if places still exist etc. especially if it can be tied in with the bugs.osm.com idea that is out there. People report a closed shop or incorrect telephone number. Should I make a wiki page with my plans on it? I am not much of a wiki person but I could try and get more people involved. If I was to make a wiki page I guess I ought to come up with some standards in naming some restaurants. Some of the big chains such as McDonalds have a myriad of spellings, This makes it hard for GPS devices. I have seen people mention that data such as contact should be kept in a wiki page a referenced by a link but I think that is the wrong way to do it because there are people who will be using OSM via mobile devices and GPS units and going to wiki pages on them things is just a PITA. It does make sense in the case of lets say food reviews of a restaurant, or background info on a historical location. That is my current plan, does anyone see any issues with that?[2] Jack Stringer [1] These directory listings places have collected data from many sources and one of them is likely to be companies websites and I doubt any of them ever asked for permission to copy the address data off the website. I know I never was asked and I am on several sites. [2]cmon this is the internet, I know there will be issues ;-) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb