[OSM-newbies] Is Lincoln Highway data OK to use?

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>wrote:

>    **I've been corresponding with the Lincoln Highway Association about
> adding its data to OSM. The director said it was all right to use their
> data, which is presented on their web site as an overlay on Google Maps.
> (The Lincoln Highway was a route, started in the 1920s, across the United
> States through about the same area as I-80. It was supported by several oil
> companies to encourage driving.)
>


Are you proposing to trace the overlay on Google Maps or use their data?
According to their web site "The Lincoln Highway Association (LHA) does not
share electronic files or computer coding of the online Official Map of the
Lincoln Highway. This definitive map, which is sanctioned and owned by the
LHA, represents thousands of hours of research by more than 25 members of
the LHA over a period of 20 years, and is updated regularly by the LHA
National Mapping Committee. You are welcome to print and/or capture
screenshots of the map, terrain, satellite and street-level views."

If they are providing you with the data, then I'd say it's ok if  you
document the addition on the wiki with information from LHA granting OSM
permission to use the data and any attribution requirements.

If they are saying it's ok to trace, then hopefully somebody more
knowledgeable than me can answer the question. Personally I wouldn't use
anything on Google's Map for fear of copyright infringement.

-- 
Clifford

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