Because it is nearly always copyright, we don't have permission, and it's against OSM's T&Cs. Additionally, not every organisation keeps up-to-date, or even validated data on their websites.
Personally, I'd also be chary of turning OSM into a repository of scraped data rather than one of surveyed geodata. Incidentally, Geolytix produce an open data set of retail locations, which is the data I would use if I was worried about consistency & completeness. Jerry On 18 December 2017 at 13:15, <paulmgill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Reading all the talk of Walmart and Shell imports recently got me to > wondering why we can't be doing more of this kind of thing. > > If store data can be pulled from directly from a company's public facing > website ('store finder' page) is there any reason we can't do such imports > without discussion with/permission from the company concerned? > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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