[Talk-us] Importing County Data

[Mike N]

On 12/20/2021 10:38 AM, Mike Thompson wrote:
> My non-lawyer interpretation of this is that the government body, in 
> this case Linn County Iowa, can set whatever terms and conditions they 
> want for accessing the GIS database (presumably the whole database, or a 
> substantial part of), but must allow for retrieval of specific 
> (individual) records from that database for a reasonable rate (and gives 
> no indication as to what terms and conditions/license might apply to 
> those specific records once in the hands of the requestor).
> 
> Given this, in my view it would be best if a county official who has the 
> authority to do so, would give explicit permission for including their 
> data in OSM.  An example email/letter is on the wiki[1]

    Or if they're willing to license under the terms of one of the "open 
data license" choices for Arcgis: PDDL or ODBL.  This setting can be 
found in the {ever mysterious and hard to locate} settings page in the 
Arcgis data portal.