Given the extreme concern many people have about protecting the integrity of OSM data, why not just get a brief email from Riley County GIS stating just that? If there's no explicit statement clarifying this on the web, an email from a county official would be better safe than sorry, no?
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > While we didn't discuss it in terms of this specific law, this does > match my conversation with the Riley county GIS department. As long as > names aren't used, they do not have any problems with their > information being used in OSM. > > Toby > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dupont > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well I have been looking into the law today, and I talked to the gis > expert > > at the county. > > First of all we are not importing the peoples names, so anyone doing a > mass > > mailing would be be just getting the address. > > The data that we imported is being bought by many companies he said. And > the > > address information is being also available from the post as well. > > I am going to talk to more people in the county or the state, but my > first > > contact said there should be no problem. All we are importing is the fact > > that there is a house there with that number and the zipcode and the > type of > > landuse. > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Mike Dupont > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Sorry, I did not finish that. I have already written to legal about it. > >> Trulia and Zillow are using this data in full. I have stripped out all > >> personal and contact information so I think that it should not fall > under > >> the no selling of contact info clause. > >> The data is basically PD/ disclaimed > >> http://www.snco.us/Ap/B_prop/Disclaimer.shtm > >> > >> the relevant law is : > >> > >> Kansas Open Records Act Statement > >> > >> By accessing this site, you are required to make the following > >> certification pursuant to K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2): "the requester does not > >> intend to, and will not: (A) Use any list of names or addresses > contained in > >> or derived from the records or information for the purpose of selling or > >> offering for sale any property or service to any person listed or to any > >> person who resides at any address listed; or (B) sell, give or otherwise > >> make available to any person any list of names or addresses contained > in or > >> derived from the records or information for the purpose of allowing that > >> person to sell or offer for sale any property or service to any person > >> listed or to any person who resides at any address listed." > >> > >> maybe you could say that you can use osm to create an address db, but i > >> think we should look into it > >> mike > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Mike Dupont > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> 2. What is the license that this data is under? I did not see a > >>>> copyright statement. > >>> > >>> This is basically PD data from the government. under the open data act > >>> the only restriction is that the > >>> http://kansasstatutes.lesterama.org/Chapter_45/Article_2/#45-216 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James Michael DuPont > >> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > >> Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion > >> http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > >> Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > >> Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > >> Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow > http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > James Michael DuPont > > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion > http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow > http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347
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