A wiki entry describing the data, the import, etc and the attributions may be sufficient.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Nathan Mixter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The County of Marin in California has buildings and addresses available to > download from their website. The data appears to be high quality and covers > the whole county. It would be great to be able to conflate the two files, > merging the points and areas that have a direct one-to-one relationship. > > > The website doesn't have anything specific about the license. It just has > vague disclaimer info - county cannot be held liable ...blah blah blah. I > contacted them to ask if the data was public domain and if it could be used > in OSM. This is their response: > > > "You may download public domain data from the MarinMap GIS data download > site. > > You do not need a license to use public domain data. > > You may acknowledge “MarinMap” as the original source, but you MUST state > that MarinMap has no responsibility or warranty regarding data after they > have entered the public domain. > > You may use the legalese from the disclaimer web page to facilitate > writing a disclaimer. > URL of the disclaimer page: > http://www.marinmap.org/dnn/Pages/LegalNoticeDisclaimer.aspx"; > <http://www.marinmap.org/dnn/Pages/LegalNoticeDisclaimer.aspx> > > Since the data is public domain, is there any way to accommodate their > request to include the disclaimer? There have been other imports that have > had this requirement I think and included it on the wiki or someplace > similar. Can it be included on the changeset tag somewhere? > > Anyone had any experience with this type of data? Any ideas on how to make > it work? > > Thanks, > Nathan Mixter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > >
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