[OSM-legal-talk] US Rails to Trails database

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Richard Masoner <rmasoner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a rank newbie at OSM, but getting into it because of my interest in
> mapping bike facilities.
> The US Rails to Trails Conservancy has an outstanding database of
> bicycling trails. This "Traillink" database is the basis of Google's bike
> layer.  I've read the legal FAQs for using data from other parties and
> understand it's best to get specific permission on data imports.
> I asked Rails to Trails about licensing their data to OSM and they say
> they've been thinking about it and asked me to put them in touch with
> somebody "official" at OSM.  They also indicated they would like some kind
> of attribution where their data is used.
> So, umm, who do I point them to?

You can have them contact the OSMF License Working Group
<legal at osmfoundation.org>