On 7/26/2017 4:05 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Bryan Housel <[email protected]> wrote:
2. contact state GIS agencies for permission, if the website does not make
license clear
I have contact information, which I'm not going to share here.
A template for the letter requesting permission would be very helpful,
since it's not immediately clear how to describe the intended use to
an agency. It would be even more helpful to be able to have contact
information for a resource person to answer any legal questions that
the agency might have. Surely someone's done this before, for the
specific case of a state's orthoimagery with this being the intended
use!
As for legal use and permissions, always look to the state statutes that
specifies handling of public records requests. That is always going to
override anything at the county / local level. For example, in Florida,
the state statute says no agency within Florida can ask for the reason
of the request or even who is requesting the data (although it has to be
sent somewhere!). No agency can exert copyright, etc. Any exceptions are
spelled out in the statutes.
What would be great is a breakdown of each state listing any potential
restrictions spelled out in state statutes. The big restriction is
usually a state allowing a local agency (i.e. county) to exert copyright
over specific data. Some states have specifically targeted GIS data as
copyrightable by local agencies in an attempt at "cost recovery" for GIS
data. If there are no restrictions on data, then you are wasting time
asking for permission, etc at the local level.
Brian
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