You couldn't distribute their dataset, but you should be able to modify it and resell it.
My guess would be that individual datasets like this would not be worth trying to resell, and if they were it would likely be cheaper to generate them yourself from the sites. For example, taking a look at their most recent dataset (gamestop store locations) it looks to be a simple matter of:
* Find the Gamestop store locator (http://web.sa.mapquest.com/gamestop/?tempset=search, linked to on www.gamestop.com).
* Plug in list of US Zip codes (I suppose you would need one of these for any scraping project of this type, might as well buy it some place).
* Scrape the page that is returned.
* They also include Longitude and Latitude. They must have a seperate database they run the address against to generate that, or it may be encoded into the Mapquest applet.
All in all, for someone who is skilled in data scraping, and already has a scraping tool set up, its a matter of ~20 minutes worth of coding, followed by (maybe) an hour of scraping. Unless you feel your time is worth >$120 per hour, you would be better off scraping it yourself than purchasing it to resell.
My guess would be that individual datasets like this would not be worth trying to resell, and if they were it would likely be cheaper to generate them yourself from the sites. For example, taking a look at their most recent dataset (gamestop store locations) it looks to be a simple matter of:
* Find the Gamestop store locator (http://web.sa.mapquest.com/gamestop/?tempset=search, linked to on www.gamestop.com). * Plug in list of US Zip codes (I suppose you would need one of these for any scraping project of this type, might as well buy it some place). * Scrape the page that is returned. * They also include Longitude and Latitude. They must have a seperate database they run the address against to generate that, or it may be encoded into the Mapquest applet.
All in all, for someone who is skilled in data scraping, and already has a scraping tool set up, its a matter of ~20 minutes worth of coding, followed by (maybe) an hour of scraping. Unless you feel your time is worth >$120 per hour, you would be better off scraping it yourself than purchasing it to resell.