I found that a local game store is not listed under OSM; however, I viewed the location on google maps. Now, there is only one way to notate where something is on a map, but would the purer way would have been to bring my laptop to the location and eyeball it? Or is it legal for me to mark where the store is, its address, along with its provided website which provides a phone number.
Without copying the gmaps description of course.
Or will someone else have to mark this location other than me?
If you have seen it on place (read: You have been there) and know the details, you can add it from home.
If you know the website it is no problem to add it and the contact-infos (phone, mail etc) you find there.
What you are not allowed to do is mapping it only with the information from google-maps.
If you have not surveyed its location and you know where it is from say Google Maps you are not allowed to add it.
You can use Google Maps to navigate there and then survey it and add, based on your survey, to OpenStreetMap.
if you got it from Google Maps and not from survey - you must not add it
But if I get it from the website that is alright. What does navigate and survey via google maps mean? I have been to the location in person
I have been there in-person, navigated with OSM (a friend used google maps to double check), so I guess I can just eyeball it on the open street map based on the relative locations/building picture .
Is this interpretation correct?
So the process is, you can use gmaps to go to a location in-person, look at it, then edit the map/compare with aerial + in-person experience to add the data. For businesses, just either get it from the business or their website.
*aerial provided by osm
I appreciate the clarification. It seems in my case, I can add the information. I appreciate osm and will love to help improve it for the benefits of others in an ethical manner.
but only data obtained from survey, their own website and other permissible sources
for example, if opening hours info could not be surveyed, then just visiting location does not allow you to copy it from google maps
You can also use street level imagery from Panoramax or Mapillary for instance (not Google Street View).
Welcome to openstreetmap! I gather from your post, that you knew of the store beforehand of looking it up in gmaps and failing to do so in omaps (new term I just coined right now!)
If so, you will not be doing anything illegal (hardly possible in all legislations that I am aware of), nor sth. not in line with openstreetmap or gmaps terms of use by adding the PoI to openstreetmap data, when using the means that openstreetmap editors provide: e.g. a map with streets and buildings based on previous contributions; or third party aerials; including data like phone number, website, opening hours &c you learned from personal survey of the location or their website.
PS: You can mark a post the solution of your question.
PPS: If you learned of the store from browsing gmaps, situation would be radically different, but lets first sort this one out.
don’t copy right from the gmap, but rather check other sources.
When you have other sources it’s kind of dumb you’d be not allowed to map it for life, coz you saw it on google xD
Copyrights/licences are so funny really tbh ;]
If you can determine the physical location based on information we are able to use (so not Google Maps) then this would be fine to add based on their website and other sources. If you have to rely on Google Maps to determine the location, then you should not add this yet until you’ve confirmed through another source or visiting in person.