On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:49 PM Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
> I'd like to see some guidance on whether data can be taken directly > from a business's website and entered directly into OSM. eg. on the > "contact us" page there is often address, postcode, phone number, > opening hours. This page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:postal_code says "You can even > look them up on the official website of the place" which suggests you > can, but normal copyright of websites would suggest you can't. A clear > statement one way or the other would be useful (I may have missed > it...) > I'm almost certain you need permission from the company to use such data and that wiki page should probably be changed. There are a few companies I'm aware of which have granted OSM permission to use website data (at least in the UK), it's on another wiki page somewhere.
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