[Talk-us] Removal of sensitive data in East Bay Regional Park District, CA

[Eric Patrick]

Is personal information really copyrighted? Can anyone put a copyright on
any of our personal information?

Eric

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:00 Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I contacted the original mapper.  He said the information originally came
> from:
> https://eastbayhillpeople.com/map/
>
> The information was publicly available (although not "public domain" - the
> page is copyright and that could be another issue) prior to being in
> OpenStreetMap, and it remains publicly available as of now.  If we remove
> the information from OSM it does not protect the sites as that information
> is easily available elsewhere, it just makes OSM a less rich data source.
>
> While not all data belongs in OSM (Frederik gave some good examples), I
> think we should be careful to not head down the slippery slope of allowing
> government officials to dictate what we map. We should listen to them, like
> we listen to anyone else, but the bar should be fairly high for data
> removal.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I appreciate all the thoughtful replies on this topic.  It's hard for me
>> to weigh in substantively on the topic simply because I don't feel that I'm
>> informed enough about tribally sensitive areas to really offer an informed
>> opinion.  What I do know is that the representatives of the people of
>> California freely created the East Bay Regional Park District to, among
>> other things, think about how best to manage the lands under their
>> administration.  Absent some really compelling reason why we should
>> second-guess their judgement on this topic, our default position ought to
>> be to respect their position on sensitive areas.  We should respect the
>> autonomy of a community to set mapping standards, and that "community"
>> should include the broader society that cares what gets put on maps and not
>> just the few of us that choose to actively participate in this project.
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