[Talk-us] Source for State or regional parks?

[Mike N.]

Will the park people know whether the information they give me is legal to 
place on OpenStreetMap?   I'll check with the Conservation Commission - that
sounds like a good start.

  Also, it is generally permissible to create mapping data from land 
surveys?  I believe this is public information.

   My county sells a DVD of GIS data; exactly what I'm looking for - but I'm 
sure the copyright would not allow inclusion into OpenStreetMap though.

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From: "Greg Troxel" <gdt at ir.bbn.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:19 PM
To: "Mike N." <niceman at att.net>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Source for State or regional parks?

I would recommend going to your town/city/county and finding the park
people.  In my town it's the conservation commission.  I map trails if
they aren't obviously private or marked private, without worrying about
boundary data that may be wrong anyway.