Changeset: 57636274
I'm in the process of standardizing the naming of Youth Hostels in England and Wales to use the names given by the yha.org.uk website.
Closed by EgrettaGarzetta
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imagery_used | Bing aerial imagery |
locale | en-GB |
Discussion
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Comment from chillly
Errrr, surely the website is copyright. DO you have permission to use this in OSM?
We take copyright VERY seriously
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Comment from EgrettaGarzetta
I understand that, a little better today than yesterday; but does that mean the names of the hostels can't be used without permission or does it mean they can't be used because they're copyright?
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Comment from SomeoneElse
@EgrettaGarzetta OSM would need data released under an appropriate licence in order to be able to use it. There's some information at https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright . There's more information over at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import , and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/GettingPermission might also be useful. It may be that the YHA have absolutely no problem with this data being available to OSM (and downstream users of OSM) or it may be that they have a very big problem with it - until they've been asked, we simply don't know. An example website does say "© 2017 YHA (England & Wales)" so without further information, it is likely that this data will need to be removed.
As mentioned elsewhere, if you'd like to discuss this with the wider GB community, https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb is probably the best place.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group. -
Comment from SomeoneElse
As I read the thread at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-April/thread.html#21270 , YHA haven't given permission for this data to be used. Are you still working to get that permission?
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