On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a draft. Mr. Sullivan's name came from one of the FOIA answers, I do > not know him, but would call him prior to sending the letter:
Bryce, Thanks for taking the lead on this. I have a few small pieces of feedback on your draft. 1. (Small, easy one) The project is called OpenStreetMap, no spaces. 2. (Most important) The most important thing here is the license. USPS has a special relationship with the US government, where they're a commercial company, and they don't have many of the same requirements as a normal federal agency. Because of this, we need the data to be licensed in a way that we can use. I know you're aware of this issue, but I think it needs some explicit mention in the letter. Maybe instead of license, we can ask for the data to be placed in the public domain? 3. OpenStreetMap US is (I believe) a 501c3, and can make these types of requests on our behalf, and doing so may possibly lead some air of authority or clout to the request. - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
