<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 7:14 PM IsStatenIsland via Talk-us <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Works by contractors of the federal government may still be under copyright. I expect this to apply to works of state governments and agents thereof.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example, the NAD has this note:<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Dark Purple color indicates the data may not be in the public domain for the following (6) whole states:</b> Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and South Carolina; and <b>the following (3) partial states including parts of </b>Colorado, Maryland, and South Dakota.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Correct. Note that New York is not on that list. The state government was able to persuade the counties to release the E911 address point datasets into the public domain. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div></div>