Clifford, We do have the Colorado Open Records Act, but I can't find anything in it that states that the records (data) have to be placed in the "public domain", only that they have to be made "publicly available." Someone with more training in the law may be able to interpret it better.
Mike. On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 8:54 PM Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > Mike, > You might want to look at state laws for Colorado regarding open data. My > state has legislation describing the terms that open data should be > licensed. They don't use the term PD but words that mean the same. Part of > the legislation is to make sure they are not releasing information on > individuals that should be. > Clifford > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 4:35 PM Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 5:23 PM <smocktay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > As noted on the wiki page, I have two sources. One is more up-to-date >> > in my local area while the other covers the entire state (with the >> > latter being a superset of the former). >> > >> > In my case, I got the data from >> > >> https://data.colorado.gov/State/Statewide-Aggregate-Addresses-in-Colorado-2019-Pub/n7je-akky >> > , where the License is "Public Domain" (look in the "About" tab). I >> > then used "Contact Dataset Owner" and asked if the dataset was actually >> > under Public Domain copyright, and the person in the state GIS office >> > confirmed that (same day, which pleasantly surprised me). >> > >> > I think I had two things going for me: >> > 1) It looked like they had *only* put information in the dataset that >> > could be under a Public Domain license (a fair chunk of the state is >> > missing) >> > 2) They already had Public Domain as the license -- I was just making >> > certain that it wasn't a typo. >> > >> > For the other one (the one I'm doing first, from Mesa County GIS), I >> > had previously contacted the dataset owner, and they gave me the go >> > ahead to use any of their information in OpenStreetMap (2014 was when I >> > got the written permission, and nothing license wise has changed that). >> > >> > I hope this helps, >> > Taylor >> >> Thanks. The state GIS people have been very responsive, but have >> referred me to CPW (data owner). The CPW people have been nice too, but >> may not have previously considered the specific license their data is >> under. I will look closer on their site to see if I can find anything >> about the data being in the "public domain." The only thing I have found >> so far is a standard disclaimer. >> >> Mike >> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Imports-us mailing list >> Imports-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us >> > > > -- > @osm_washington > www.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch >
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