Allow one click 'import' from google my business API; facebook site API

[CloCkWeRX]

1. User logs in via oauth
2. Clicks 'submit my data from google/facebook business listing' and 'I am authorised to license this data via the ODBL' (or similar)
3. OnOSM hits https://developers.google.com/my-business/ and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages to find existing details

Reasoning: its very easy for small businesses to add themselves to google or facebook - some are skipping even websites in favour of a facebook page.
People are more likely to contribute their data to OSM if it is trivial to sync from data they have already keyed in elsewhere.

[CloCkWeRX]

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[CloCkWeRX]

So Facebook's graph API makes this pretty easy

I might have a go at the oauth steps

GET /2.8/PortExpressTakeaway/?fields=id,name,about,single_line_address,website,is_always_open,payment_options,hours,location,category,category_list,company_overview,description,general_info,is_permanently_closed,link,parking,phone,place_type,public_transit,store_location_descriptor

produces

{
  "id": "558600187674566",
  "name": "Port Express Takeaway",
  "about": "Snack Bar, food, Vietnamese Bread Roll
Coffee
Fish and CHips",
  "single_line_address": "95 Victoria Road, Birkenhead, South Australia 5010",
  "is_always_open": false,
  "location": {
    "city": "Birkenhead",
    "country": "Australia",
    "latitude": -34.83353,
    "longitude": 138.50144,
    "state": "SA",
    "street": "95 Victoria Road",
    "zip": "5010"
  },
  "category": "Local Business",
  "category_list": [
    {
      "id": "167608369957681",
      "name": "Fish & Chips Restaurant"
    },
    {
      "id": "1802051720039034",
      "name": "Food Delivery Service"
    },
    {
      "id": "201035296584114",
      "name": "Internet Cafe"
    }
  ],
  "is_permanently_closed": false,
  "link": "https://www.facebook.com/PortExpressTakeaway/",
  "phone": "08 8249 9472",
  "place_type": "PLACE"
}

[iandees]

Hmm, interesting. It's probably against the Facebook TOU to grab their data, but if it's the store owner suggesting it then maybe it's ok.

[CloCkWeRX]

Yeah, I did intend for it to only be your own business - the owner would have the ability to release that info under a compatible license.

Annoyingly, finding out if a facebook user owns a page requires extended permissions (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2966015/facebook-get-list-of-pages-that-a-user-is-admin-of); so for the short term I've gone for the simplest thing that can work - take the user's word that they are the owner.