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

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Sun Mar 6 03:36:40 GMT 2011


Richard Masoner writes:
 > 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.

Interesting. I went to DC and spoke to the R2T traillink folks F2F at
their HQ in June of 2009, and they had basically zero interest in
cooperating with OSM. Of course, they also admitted that they had
gotten zero contributions from volunteers, and that all their data
came from paying people to map.  So I'm speculating that they've had a
change in heart.

It's all good!

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