On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Lord-Castillo, Brett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > TIGER 2010 is a different beast from past TIGER products. Each county was > required to respond to the Census bureau with their addressing and > centerline data to build it. So, it is a year or more out of date, but also > it is derived mostly from existing local sources. > > Required under what law? Do they have to release it into the public > domain? >
Title 13 of US code says that the census must release its data for everyone to use. They've interpreted this to mean "public domain" as with other federally-funded projects.
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