[Talk-us] Importing County Data

[Mike Thompson]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:42 AM Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
Agree!
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