[Talk-us-massachusetts] New/expanded map for Elizabeth How / Echo Reservation, Ipswich

[Andy Anderson]

Towns are required to make their data available at cost of reproduction. That information is in the public domain. If a volunteer makes a map but doesn’t explicitly give it to the town or declare it public domain, then they would retain copyright.

If all you are doing is tracing lines from maps, that wouldn’t infringe on copyright because it is extracting data rather than a creative representation that is copyrightable (IMHO).

— Andy

On Dec 22, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the notice and keeping the metadata.
> 
> Do you carry information about licensing from the various towns and
> other sources?  The state seems to have an open data bias, by policy,
> but it's really not clear to me about copyright/licensing on works by
> town employees, and what happens when volunteers make maps that are used
> by towns.  I suspect this is close to intractable.
> 
> Have you thought about making a TMS for the state with all of the maps
> you have georeferenced into it?  I am thinking of this more to add in
> osmand while hiking, than tracing, which would require solving the
> permissions issues.
> 
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