On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Joseph Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Eric Ladner wrote: > >> my understanding is that government produced GIS data is public and >> not subject to copyright (since, actually you're the one that helped >> pay for it, it's partially yours, too). > > Better to say US Federal Government data is public. State and local > governments can (and sometimes do) copyright data. >
Ahh.. I didn't realize that. I contacted people in my state about GIS data and they indicated there were no restrictions and I assumed that was the case for all states. If not, I'd suggest writing a letter to your local representatives... -- Eric Ladner _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
