When last I checked OSM was unable to really legitimately provide attribution in cases like these. Getting interpretation from someone at Ecology goes a long way to clearing up any licensing issues.
How does the Census 2011 TIGER data for counties in Washington look? On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on license cleaning state/county borders in the U.S. Most > of them have been pretty easy but Washington state has a lot more > license taint so I'm looking at re-importing some of the ways. > Fortunately the relations are clean so I'm only looking replacing > (some of) the geometry. The best source I found was the Washington > State Department of Ecology. Their copyright page seemed clear at > first but then pnorman on IRC muddied the waters and suggested I get > some input from a wider audience. The page in question is here: > http://www.ecy.wa.gov/copyright.html > > Seems like a basic attribution requirement. But of course that gets > complicated with derived works and whatnot. I guess I'll send someone > at the department a quick email too and see what they say. > > As for the rest of the import, the data can be viewed here. It is the > "Counties" data set and the "County_arc.shp" file inside of that. > http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/data/data.htm#c > > my initial ogr2osm translation file can be seen here: > https://github.com/ToeBee/ogr2osm-translations/blob/master/wa_counties.py > > Since I'm only using the geometry, it is pretty much braindead. I will > have to manually add the generated ways into the appropriate boundary > relations. > > I simplified the ways in JOSM with a max error setting of 5 meters. > This took the total node count from just under 50,000 to 18,500 > although I won't be using all of them since some of the ways are > already relicensable. The geometry matches up very well with what is > already in OSM. Where it diverges it seems that the new data is better > (smoother curves, follows visible features more closely) > > Paul suggested removing the source:ref tag from the ways and putting > it in the changeset instead. > > Thoughts? > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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