On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Eric Ladner wrote: > my understanding is that government produced GIS data is public and > not subject to copyright (since, actually you're the one that helped > pay for it, it's partially yours, too).
Better to say US Federal Government data is public. State and local governments can (and sometimes do) copyright data. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Scanlan http://www.qsl.net/n7xsd +1-702-455-3679 http://n7xsd.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) (not work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- So he went inside there to take on what he found. But he never escaped them, for who can escape what he desires? --Tony Banks of Genesis in "The Lady Lies" _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
