The York County import was completed this week. Post-import notes are available on the import repo https://github.com/jonahadkins/yorkcounty-OSM-imports/blob/master/README.md <https://github.com/jonahadkins/yorkcounty-OSM-imports/blob/master/README.md>
Ill be spot checking and cleaning up any errors over the next few days, updating the import wiki, and may attempt to generate change script going forward if the city is interested. Thanks Jonah > On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/28/2015 10:26 AM, Eric Ladner wrote: >> At least include the email from them directly instead of just a quote from >> the email. I'm not an expert in licensing issues, tho. Others may chime in. >> >> Understand about the address points. Sometimes you have to just deal with >> what you've got. >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:37 AM Jonah Adkins <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> thanks, eric. >> >> are you saying i need to get something more than the email i have explicitly >> stating that i can import this data into OSM? > > I just did some quick googling and the state of Virginia appears to have > liberal open records laws. All government data produced in the state of > Virginia should be public domain, unless specifically exempted by the public > records statute. So if there is no exemption for spatial data, no additional > permissions are needed. You may want to dive a little deeper into the statute > to double check. Also another indication that there is a green-light on > licensing is take a look at http://openaddresses.io/ > <http://openaddresses.io/> -- if data is there for your particular state, it > should be fine. > > some links: > http://www.vita.virginia.gov/about/default.aspx?id=311 > <http://www.vita.virginia.gov/about/default.aspx?id=311> > https://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/records/documents/Vpra.pdf > <https://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/records/documents/Vpra.pdf> > http://www.opengovva.org/foia/current-law > <http://www.opengovva.org/foia/current-law> > -- > Brian May > MapWise Inc. > 772-600-7353 > www.mapwise.com <http://www.mapwise.com/>
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