[Imports] List of Lights, Data Import

[Robin Paulson]

On 11 January 2011 23:43, Bernhard R. Fischer <bf at abenteuerland.at> wrote:
> I'd like to prepare the import of data of the "List of Lights" (marine lights,
> necessary for sea charts and navigation). According to the OSM-Wiki/Imports I
> shall post this here and describe the import in short.
>
> The original data source is publicly downloadable from here:
> http://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/NIMA_LOL/Pub110/Pub110bk.pdf
>
> I am not an expert in legal issues but as far as I understand the copyright
> note on the title page of these documents it is allowed to used them. Maybe
> somebody with more legal background could help me checking this copyright.

i can't access the doc - it times out. if it's produced by the USA
government, it will be released under a public domain license, which
means we can include it. maybe post this to osm-legal if you are
concerned?


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robin

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