On 05/07/2011 10:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tom Chance wrote:
So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of
judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you
were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business
model was based around that data (like a listing of pubs) you
might get yourself and OSM into some trouble. On the other
hand, copying in some basic contact details for a local church
or restaurant off their own web site is unlikely to cause any
trouble!
Exactly that.
If you want a very very broad rule of thumb, you could ask "am I checking
these contact details against a database of contact details?".
If so (e.g. tesco.com list of their stores, beerintheevening.com list of
pubs, etc.), then don't do it.
If not (e.g. an individual 'contact us' page on a one-off shop), you'll be
fine.
cheers
Richard
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I have a rule of thumb about this: if I've checked against the website
of the business/church/organisation I add this link in a tag in addition
to any address/name info. I hope this a) offers a degree of reciprocity;
and b) enables other mappers to find the same details for verification.
In general I do this to check some specific details, working out the
denomination of inner city churches is often a bit tricky, and I might
check things like the postcode against my deduction from CodePoint Open.
Other times I'll do this are when photomapping is inappropriate, so the
website is giving what the ad-men call 'prompted recall'.
Jerry
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