[OSM-newbies] Copyright question

[Richard Welty]

On 3/29/14 11:58 PM, Stephen Johnson wrote:
> I would like to add information for boat ramps maintained by a state agency in my home state (North Carolina US) to OSM.  There is a GIS shapefile for these boat ramps that was created by this state agency and it is freely available.  I would like to use this shapefile as a starting point to map these boat ramps.  I would not do this in an automated way. What I would probably do is export the location data in a format suitable for display in JOSM and place the nodes by hand.
i agree with Dan S's answer on the copyright. i just wanted to point
out that JOSM has a plugin that can load shapefiles into a layer; i
have used it quite a bit and it works well.

richard

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