On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 23:13 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > For what it's worth, I did something similar here in Kansas. The > Department of Transportation didn't have any obvious notices about > copyright on the website so I sent them an email and asked. They > replied and said that all the maps published on their website are > public domain. So I added exit numbers along I-70 and I-35 from the > general transportation map. > > As I have traveled along them since then I have verified and added > name=* tags (although I guess that is about to get changed to exit_to) > > Toby > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Cleveland > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Caltrans has freeway exit numbers for all California state and Interstate > > routes available at > > http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/index.htm . Their > > "Conditions of Use" ( http://www.dot.ca.gov/use.html#ownership ) say "In > > general, information presented on this web site, unless otherwise indicated, > > is considered in the public domain." > > > > Is it OK legally to use this data in OSM? I only plan to add exit numbers in > > areas that are familiar to me. Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Thanks. The only indication I can find other than the statement on ca.gov is that Wikipedia takes anything created by the state of California obtained as public record to be in the public domain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-CAGov ). So I think it is a fair assumption that the exit data is public domain as well (though I'm not a lawyer obviously). -Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
