[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Steven Johnson]

That was exactly my reaction as well. My understanding is that these data
are essentially in the public domain. I'll note it in the spreadsheet.

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Brian May <bmay at mapwise.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> The
>>> data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data and
>>> allows use "...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but
>>> you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up
>>> purposes)."
>>>
>>>  the redistribute clause is a real problem, as we don't attempt to
>> control
>> people taking copies of OSM as long as they honor the ODbL. i'd say this
>> license is ODbL incompatible (not a lawyer, though.)
>>
>> richard
>>
>>
> Local governments may claim copyright, but whether they can legally is
> another matter. A very quick review of Virginia state law appears to show
> they have liberal open records laws.
> http://www.opengovva.org/**virginias-foia-the-law<http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-the-law>
>
> We should probably track these public records problems, e.g. counties and
> cities that claim copyright, etc but the state law says otherwise.
>
> Brian
>
>
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