[Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Nov 14 14:32:46 GMT 2009


Anthony writes:
 > As for why they don't put restrictions on the data, that's likely
 > because (under Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service) it can't
 > be copyrighted under US law in the first place.

The *data* can't be copyrighted, but the format and presentation of it
can.  But then again, whenever we import into OSM we necessary remove
the copyrightable elements, so no worries, mate.

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