[Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Mon Jan 25 21:57:07 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> Excellent!  I'm able to read this.  It's not *quite* in alignment, but
> it's close enough that I can conflate it easily on a case by case basis.
> But, looking at
> http://www.ou.edu/content/publicaffairs/webpolicies/termsofuse.html, I'm
> wondering if this is even a dataset that we can use, or if it's just
> typical boilerplate that is nullified by the Open Records Act.
>

The section under copyright (below) seems to exclude use by OSM. It does
seem to be generic boilerplate to the site so they may give permission to
use the boundaries in OSM. I would recommend contacting them for permission.

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Clifford

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