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<div>AFAIK "makes no claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness"</div><div>is not a problem, whoever is doing imports must do this part anyway.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>But what is the license of the data?<br></div><div>Maybe "Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections"<br></div><div>is sufficient (I am not a lawyer) - but only if that agency holds full rights to the dataset<br></div><div><br></div><div>As usual, legal-talk has greater chance to get response with someone with greater<br></div><div>legal knowledge.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div>Oct 9, 2020, 14:38 by lobstereatery@airmail.cc:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning<br></div><div>Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing of a<br></div><div>building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this<br></div><div>layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After<br></div><div>contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( along<br></div><div>the lines of<br></div><div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1<br></div><div>), I received this response:<br></div><div><br></div><div>The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to<br></div><div>geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building Footprints"<br></div><div>layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata<br></div><div>database and displayed publicly on the map. By using the data,<br></div><div>however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County makes no<br></div><div>claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the county's<br></div><div>building footprint file, and the county will not be held responsible<br></div><div>for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and<br></div><div>there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular purpose. <br></div><div>Your use of the data is at your own risk. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Talk-us mailing list<br></div><div>Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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