[OSM-legal-talk] Is this click through agreement compatible with OSM?

Chris Fleming me at chrisfleming.org
Fri Dec 10 10:32:53 GMT 2010


On 09/12/2010 22:16, Gregory Arenius wrote:
> The city of San Francisco has made a bunch of geo data available.  I 
> plan on importing the address nodes so that we can have door to door 
> routing for San Francisco and for geocoding purposes.  I just want to 
> see if the click through is compatible.  My understanding is that the 
> data is basically public domain and the agreement is mostly a hold 
> harmless type of thing.  This is based on my reading of it and what 
> they city has told me they intend it to be. I have asked about this 
> before and there were problems but the city changed the click through 
> to address those problems.  The agreement is located here: 
> http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/index2.asp.  Thoughts?
>

I would tend to agree with you, from my quick read it looks like a big 
disclaimer. It does say that individual elements may have there own 
terms so I would ensure double check that none of these apply to the 
data you're looking at.

Cheers
Chris

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