[Talk-us] US Addressing
Brian May
bmay at mapwise.com
Thu Nov 29 19:59:02 GMT 2012
If Sanborn was just a contractor hired by the govmt agency to help with
digitizing, data conversion, etc. there should be no copyright issues
with them. I didn't see a reference to Sanborn in the parcel metadata.
Brian
On 11/29/2012 2:36 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote:
> The city/county of Denver, CO does have a parcels database (in a bunch
> of formats)
> (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels)
>
> But it is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 License
> (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels)
>
> Is this something that should even be added to the spreadsheet? It
> looks like all their data is from Sanborn, so the older data should be
> out of copyright by now, if it can be found elsewhere.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohnson8 at gmail.com
> <mailto:sejohnson8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- SEJ
> -- twitter: @geomantic
> -- skype: sejohnson8
>
> "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
> eighteen." -- Einstein
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Brian May <bmay at mapwise.com
> <mailto: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
>
> 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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