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

2016-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Ian Butler wrote: > Another possibility for state park boundary shp files might be the > Oklahoma Protected Areas Database at the Oklahoma Biological Survey. > I have not seen this data; but I worked on the original public lands layer > for

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

2016-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
I have received word back from Todd Fagin at the University of Oklahoma and he says that yes, the data is in the public domain, though he would like attribution on our contributors page (NBD, already done at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Oklahoma). I'm not fully ready to do a

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

2016-01-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul Johnson 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 >

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

2016-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Todd Fagin at OU did confirm this mintues ago, we're good to go. On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Excellent! I'm able to read this. It's not *quite* in alignment,

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

2016-01-24 Thread Ian Butler
Another possibility for state park boundary shp files might be the Oklahoma Protected Areas Database at the Oklahoma Biological Survey. I have not seen this data; but I worked on the original public lands layer for the Oklahoma GAP project. http://biosurvey.ou.edu/PAD/PAD.html "PAD-OK is an

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

2016-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On 01/23/2016 01:48 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > >> New York courts are free to rule any way they want, but copyright >> doesn't allow you to own facts. This is well-adjudicated in higher >> courts. >> >> If you could claim a

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

2016-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Ian Butler wrote: > Another possibility for state park boundary shp files might be the > Oklahoma Protected Areas Database at the Oklahoma Biological Survey. > I have not seen this data; but I worked on the original public lands layer > for

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

2016-01-23 Thread Jack Burke
You can copyright a publication of facts, too. I could publish a book called Ugly Red Things and copyright it. But nothing would stop you from publishing your own book, Red Things That I Find Ugly. On January 23, 2016 1:48:51 PM EST, Russ Nelson wrote: >Kevin Kenny writes:

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

2016-01-23 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 01/23/2016 01:48 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: New York courts are free to rule any way they want, but copyright doesn't allow you to own facts. This is well-adjudicated in higher courts. If you could claim a copyright on facts, you could control people's speech, and the First Amendment does not

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

2016-01-22 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 01/21/2016 04:32 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Paul Johnson > wrote: Would it be possible to get some advice on how to best submit this form for the outlines Oklahoma's state parks? I'm not quite sure

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

2016-01-21 Thread Eric Ladner
That seems unusual. Most states have a GIS or Geospatial portal where most of that information is easily downloadable. E On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:58 AM Paul Johnson wrote: > Would it be possible to get some advice on how to best submit this form > for the outlines

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

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
We have one, but only has centroids and already imported from GNIS. This region's a little weird on information access...for example to get addresses, I'd have to drive to each of the 77 counties and pay $75 each to get the address databases for the whole state (so the better chunk of $6k before

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

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Would it be possible to get some advice on how to best submit this form for the outlines Oklahoma's state parks? I'm not quite sure where "using the public record to assist in contributing to OpenStreetMap" lies on the binary option "personal" or "commercial" use, and ODRT basically said, "You