Arun, In my experience, governments don't intend for disclaimers to be a license. They're merely attempting to limit governments' liability to suits resulting from the misuse or misinterpretation of the data, or inaccurate data. Digging around the San Jose Website, I see they have an open data catalog with a Public Domain Dedication & License (PDDL) that applies to datasets in the catalog. Therefore I'd assume this data to be public domain.
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/ Elliott On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:37 AM Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone checked out the GIS data for San Jose: > https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3308 > > The data seem fairly comprehensive: > - City Council Districts > - Parcels, Single Street Centerlines and Divided Street Centerlines > - Address Points, Air Parcels, Building Footprints, Condo Points, > Intersections, Side Walk Areas, and Tract Boundaries > - Sanitary Mains and Sanitary Manholes > - Storm Mains, Manholes, Inlets, Laterals, Outfalls, Overland Drains and > Pumpstations > - Zoning designations > > The disclaimer is a little vague and essentially says the data is provided > as is with no gaurantee > https://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16118 > > Does this mean its ok to use for OSM or is a more explicit license needed? > Could not find any prior discussion of the dataset on list. > > Cheers, > > -- > Arun Ganesh > (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> > <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Elliott Plack http://elliottplack.me
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