On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Johan C <osm...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a good question Rob. 'Seeing the light' possibly means maintaining > your own platform/apps as a business. I did ask McDonald's back in 2012, I > got the following reply: "We put focus on optimizing this McDonald's app > and want to keep the management of the associated database as efficiently > as possible. Keeping databases for others makes that ambition tricky. With > the McDonald's app we also communicate information about McDonald's > products, actions, nutrition values, different locations and opening times > of the restaurants and the McDrives. Also, restaurant renovations and > therefore temporary adjusted opening hours are regularly incorporated into > an update. For the above reasons, we will not consent to the inclusion of > McDonald's restaurants in Openstreetmap." >
They also want the eyeballs on their website, not "ours". I think they understood the request well. Perhaps the right approach is to ask for limited access to specific fields. The position of the restaurant showing up a a benefit to McD stockholders. The opening hours might be seen as competition for eyeballs. Beyond that it's unclear if querying for existence is a violation of any sort. In other words if I ping https://ajax.bigchainstore.com?storeid=2323&format=json and it comes up empty, I learned something. But did I also violate their terms of service?
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