Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

2016-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Jack Burke wrote: > "Open to the public" is not the same thing as free from copyright > restrictions > IANAL, however, after having looked into this subject before for other projects, I do believe Washington's open records act is similar

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

2016-02-11 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS > data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be > open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

2016-02-11 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of > counties providing open data. :) > Big typo! Should have read, Washington State isn't the only state with... > > If someone wants to work with me to get

Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles

2016-02-11 Thread Jack Burke
"Open to the public" is not the same thing as free from copyright restrictions -jack On February 11, 2016 1:46:53 PM EST, Clifford Snow wrote: >Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with >GIS >data. Washington State laws (Open Records

[Talk-us] weeklyOSM 290

2016-02-11 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 290, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: Among others: - In the city of Chefchaouen (the chief town of the province of the same name) in Morocco, a collaboration between

[Talk-us] County Road Tiles

2016-02-11 Thread Clifford Snow
Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for nearby