The city/county of Denver, CO does have a parcels database (in a bunch of formats)<div>(<a href="http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels">http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 License</div><div>(<a href="http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels">http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is this something that should even be added to the spreadsheet? It looks like all their data is from Sanborn, so the older data should be out of copyright by now, if it can be found elsewhere.</div><div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steven Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sejohnson8@gmail.com" target="_blank">sejohnson8@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That was exactly my reaction as well. My understanding is that these data are essentially in the public domain. I'll note it in the spreadsheet.<div class="im HOEnZb">
<br><br clear="all">-- SEJ<br>-- twitter: @geomantic<br>-- skype: sejohnson8<br>
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<br><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Brian May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmay@mapwise.com" target="_blank">bmay@mapwise.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The<br>
data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data and<br>
allows use "...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but<br>
you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up<br>
purposes)."<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
the redistribute clause is a real problem, as we don't attempt to control<br>
people taking copies of OSM as long as they honor the ODbL. i'd say this<br>
license is ODbL incompatible (not a lawyer, though.)<br>
<br>
richard<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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Local governments may claim copyright, but whether they can legally is another matter. A very quick review of Virginia state law appears to show they have liberal open records laws.<br>
<a href="http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-the-law" target="_blank">http://www.opengovva.org/<u></u>virginias-foia-the-law</a><br>
<br>
We should probably track these public records problems, e.g. counties and cities that claim copyright, etc but the state law says otherwise.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Brian</font></span><div><div><br>
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