Richard Welty writes: > the NY stuff listed that comes from the NY GIS clearinghouse > is problematic; the clearinghouse agreement isn't > OSM compatible* so you have to negotiate with the > individual data providers (which are frequently the > County GIS departments). those negotiations are > frequently not very easy.
In an email conversation with the contacts for the NYSDECLands data, they agreed with me that the data is a list of facts about the world. That means that it's not copyrightable -- even if they try to claim a copyright anyway, you can't enforce a copyright on something that is not material subject to copyright. Unfortunately, that exchange was recorded on a computer that went back to Cloudmade, and so is probably lost to history. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
