[Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

[Andrew Cleveland]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 23:13 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: 
> For what it's worth, I did something similar here in Kansas. The
> Department of Transportation didn't have any obvious notices about
> copyright on the website so I sent them an email and asked. They
> replied and said that all the maps published on their website are
> public domain. So I added exit numbers along I-70 and I-35 from the
> general transportation map.
> 
> As I have traveled along them since then I have verified and added
> name=* tags (although I guess that is about to get changed to exit_to)
> 
> Toby
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Cleveland
> <evil.saltine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Caltrans has freeway exit numbers for all California state and Interstate
> > routes available at
> > http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/index.htm . Their
> > "Conditions of Use" ( http://www.dot.ca.gov/use.html#ownership ) say "In
> > general, information presented on this web site, unless otherwise indicated,
> > is considered in the public domain."
> >
> > Is it OK legally to use this data in OSM? I only plan to add exit numbers in
> > areas that are familiar to me. Thanks in advance.
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Thanks. The only indication I can find other than the statement on
ca.gov is that Wikipedia takes anything created by the state of
California obtained as public record to be in the public domain
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-CAGov ). So I think it is a
fair assumption that the exit data is public domain as well (though I'm
not a lawyer obviously).

-Andrew