On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
A real problem is that the data itself is not properly tagged, or does not
explicitly state what if any restrictions are placed on it. When it is not
perfectly clear is when non-lawyers like us are putting themselves and
And those are the basic assumptions I made as well. The problem is neither
of us are lawyers and know what legal risks are involved with those
assumption other than stay away from anything not CLEARLY labeled PD
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote:
On
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:23 -0400, Nakor wrote:
My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do not
have **explicit** permission from the various US government entities and
do not feel comfortable accepting those terms.
One of the mission of the US OSM could be to get
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:23 -0400, Nakor wrote:
My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do not
have **explicit** permission from the various US government entities and
do not feel comfortable accepting
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote:
Most of my contributions even though based on my GPS tracks are derived
work of some US governement data (USGS and NAIP imageries) and in a lesser
extent Ohio through OSIP. I also imported some NHS, NPS and TIGER datasets.
I
Virtually all geospatial data obtained from government agencies in the US,
-local, state, or Federal is subject to either Federal or state public
records law, and therefore in the public domain. (Note however that some
states have stronger public records law than others). Of course, there are
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Apollinaris Schoell
ascho...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote:
Most of my contributions even though based on my GPS tracks are derived
work of some US governement data (USGS and NAIP imageries) and in a lesser
* Nakor nakor@gmail.com [2010-08-12 10:23 -0400]:
My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do
not have **explicit** permission from the various US government
entities and do not feel comfortable accepting those terms.
I'm not on legal-talk, but I was pointed at this
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Apollinaris Schoell
ascho...@gmail.com wrote:
US government data is public domain. you can do whatever you like to do
with it. All big ones from Garmin, Google ... you name it use
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