[Imports] [Talk-us-newyork] Draft proposal for import of New York State GIS SAM Address Points

[Skyler Hawthorne]

Jan 9, 2021 14:18:31 Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>:

> The 'for any lawful purpose' language was challenged here on the mailing list, with someone arguing that copyright infringement is unlawful, so the statement doesn't actually offer a grant of rights.  Was there a consensus that the objection was ridiculous? (My opinion: it was.) 

I also disagreed with the objection. As I said in a previous message, there is plenty of context, and you'd have to intentionally ignore all of it to come to the conclusion that they did anything but give explicit permission to import the data. Also as I said, I've been in regular contact with them about importing the data. There is no question about whether they have given permission for its use.

> Can your NYSGIS contacts offer any guidance as to the legality of tracing features off the imagery served up by orthos.dhses.ny.gov[http://orthos.dhses.ny.gov]?  If I recall correctly, the previous round of this kerfuffle caused the iD maintainers to reject an update of the URL for NYS Orthos Online - and therefore iD attempts to access the imagery at a nonfunctioning URL. The email that you host specifically dealt with the E911 address points, and not the orthos, so was not satisfactory to the maintainers.

I am happy to ask them, if you had a specific question in mind. They've also been quite responsive and helpful with me, so if you wanted to reach out yourself, I'm sure they could shed some light on it. The main point of contact is Frank Winters, who can be reached at: Frank.Winters at its.ny.gov
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