Brian, That's probably true. There is no reference to Sanborn in the metadata, but there is an attribute "PARCEL_SOURCE" which seems to be set to Sanborn in most cases.
-- Jim On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: > If Sanborn was just a contractor hired by the govmt agency to help with > digitizing, data conversion, etc. there should be no copyright issues with > them. I didn't see a reference to Sanborn in the parcel metadata. > > Brian > > > On 11/29/2012 2:36 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: > > The city/county of Denver, CO does have a parcels database (in a bunch of > formats) > (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels) > > But it is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 License > (http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-parcels) > > Is this something that should even be added to the spreadsheet? It > looks like all their data is from Sanborn, so the older data should be out > of copyright by now, if it can be found elsewhere. > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> That was exactly my reaction as well. My understanding is that these data >> are essentially in the public domain. I'll note it in the spreadsheet. >> >> >> -- SEJ >> -- twitter: @geomantic >> -- skype: sejohnson8 >> >> "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." >> -- Einstein >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>>> The >>>>> data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data >>>>> and >>>>> allows use "...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis >>>>> but >>>>> you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up >>>>> purposes)." >>>>> >>>>> the redistribute clause is a real problem, as we don't attempt to >>>> control >>>> people taking copies of OSM as long as they honor the ODbL. i'd say this >>>> license is ODbL incompatible (not a lawyer, though.) >>>> >>>> richard >>>> >>>> >>> Local governments may claim copyright, but whether they can legally is >>> another matter. A very quick review of Virginia state law appears to show >>> they have liberal open records laws. >>> http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-the-law >>> >>> We should probably track these public records problems, e.g. counties >>> and cities that claim copyright, etc but the state law says otherwise. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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