[Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

[Russ Nelson]

Richard Welty writes:
 > the NY stuff listed that comes from the NY GIS clearinghouse
 > is problematic; the clearinghouse agreement isn't
 > OSM compatible* so you have to negotiate with the
 > individual data providers (which are frequently the
 > County GIS departments). those negotiations are
 > frequently not very easy.

In an email conversation with the contacts for the NYSDECLands data,
they agreed with me that the data is a list of facts about the
world. That means that it's not copyrightable -- even if they try to
claim a copyright anyway, you can't enforce a copyright on something
that is not material subject to copyright. Unfortunately, that
exchange was recorded on a computer that went back to Cloudmade, and
so is probably lost to history.

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