[Imports] [Imports-us] Colorado Address Imports

[smocktaylor at gmail.com]

As noted on the wiki page, I have two sources. One is more up-to-date
in my local area while the other covers the entire state (with the
latter being a superset of the former).

In my case, I got the data from 
https://data.colorado.gov/State/Statewide-Aggregate-Addresses-in-Colorado-2019-Pub/n7je-akky
, where the License is "Public Domain" (look in the "About" tab). I
then used "Contact Dataset Owner" and asked if the dataset was actually
under Public Domain copyright, and the person in the state GIS office
confirmed that (same day, which pleasantly surprised me).

I think I had two things going for me:
1) It looked like they had *only* put information in the dataset that
could be under a Public Domain license (a fair chunk of the state is
missing)
2) They already had Public Domain as the license -- I was just making
certain that it wasn't a typo.

For the other one (the one I'm doing first, from Mesa County GIS), I
had previously contacted the dataset owner, and they gave me the go
ahead to use any of their information in OpenStreetMap (2014 was when I
got the written permission, and nothing license wise has changed that).

I hope this helps,
Taylor

On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 17:11 -0700, Mike Thompson wrote:
> 
> I am working on writing up a proposed import of Colorado State
> parks.  I would be interested in hearing about your experience
> confirming with the state of Colorado that their data is in the
> public domain.  I am in contact with someone from Colorado Parks and
> Wildlife (the data owner) and their response so far (it has only been
> a week), has been that the data is "publicly available" (which I
> don't think is the same thing as public domain), and they are
> inquiring with the AG. 
> 
> Mike