In the US if you get records through a FOIA they are public records of the US Govt.
USPS Procedures on FOIA http://about.usps.com/handbooks/as353/as353c4_toc.htm For the FOIA regulations that apply to the USPS see http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/julqtr/39cfr265.1.htm On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > (crossposted to talk-us) > > On 9/2/2011 3:30 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > >> On 09/01/2011 12:01 AM, Stephen Hope wrote: >> >>> On 1 September 2011 11:41, Nathan Edgars II<nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> In the US, the problem is that address place names depend on which post >>>> office serves the area, and there is no freely available accurate data >>>> showing this. Many suburban areas outside Orlando city limits have >>>> Orlando >>>> in the address, and there are some cases where a place in city A uses an >>>> address that is not city A. >>>> >>> That's interesting, and a bit weird to me. Here, post offices open, >>> close, move around, merge and split - and it makes no difference to my >>> address. >>> >> I've lived to places in the USA where I could not be called to Jury >> duty... because the Court sent notices based a naive address match, but >> the property was actually in a different jurisdiction. >> >> Note that the USPS recently lost a freedom of information act fight, and >> was forced to share post box data. Perhaps other data can be FOI'ed out >> of them. >> > > As far as I know, FOIA has nothing to do with copyright, and since the USPS > is not technically part of the government, its data is copyrighted by > default. > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-us<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us> > -- Carl Anderson, GISP cander...@spatialfocus.com carl.ander...@vadose.org
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