Try checking with the county planning department. Looks like there are three people in their GIS services department - Greg Bazhaw, Steve Borgstrom and Matthew Thompson. Start with Greg at 408-299-5776 or [email protected]. Then try Michael Lopez, the planning manager or Jody Hall, the director. They all have the same email format of [email protected]. It might be best to send them a letter requesting the information and explaining a little about OSM and what it is about.
------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:26:55 -0700 From: David Carmean <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-us] California GIS data is public domain? To: OSM US Talk <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [ OK, I see that this was posted to the list back in February, but I don't find any further discussion about it... is there a way to search just the legal-talk archive? ] Just found this article about an appeals-court decision on the Santa Clara County GIS brouhaha: http://gis.lacounty.gov/eGIS/?p=696 In particular, the analysis of item III of the decision seems to indicate that the court believes that government-produced data cannot be copyrighted: III. A. There is no statutory basis either for copyrighting the GIS basemap or for conditioning its release on a licensing agreement. The decision can be found here: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/H031658.PDF The question is: has the Foundation considered this? Can we begin to import California GIS data? :) -- Dave C, 2nd St. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us End of Talk-us Digest, Vol 20, Issue 23 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
