[Talk-us] California GIS data is public domain?
[ OK, I see that this was posted to the list back in February, but I don't find any further discussion about it... is there a way to search just the legal-talk archive? ] Just found this article about an appeals-court decision on the Santa Clara County GIS brouhaha: http://gis.lacounty.gov/eGIS/?p=696 In particular, the analysis of item III of the decision seems to indicate that the court believes that government-produced data cannot be copyrighted: III. A. There is no statutory basis either for copyrighting the GIS basemap or for conditioning its release on a licensing agreement. The decision can be found here: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/H031658.PDF The question is: has the Foundation considered this? Can we begin to import California GIS data? :) -- Dave C, 2nd St. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] tiger:separated
As far as I can tell, that is the intended purpose of the tag. Someone else correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been deleting the seperated tag whenever I add in the parallel way. The most important thing to do in these cases is to make sure you add the oneway=yes tag and either create or update the route relationship so the divided street/road renders correctly. --Original Message-- From: David Carmean Sender: talk-us-boun...@openstreetmap.org To: OSM US Talk Subject: [Talk-us] tiger:separated Sent: Jul 24, 2009 10:19 PM What is the intent of the tiger:separated tag? Was it to indicate that a single way actually represents a set of two or more parallel ways? What should we do when we modify a single TIGER way to represent the true divided nature of a street/road? For example, when I copy the entire way and paste a copy offset by a few meters to form the other direction of the road? Should tiger:separated be considered immutable and left alone? Or deleted? Or changed to 'yes'? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] tiger:separated
What is the intent of the tiger:separated tag? Was it to indicate that a single way actually represents a set of two or more parallel ways? What should we do when we modify a single TIGER way to represent the true divided nature of a street/road? For example, when I copy the entire way and paste a copy offset by a few meters to form the other direction of the road? Should tiger:separated be considered immutable and left alone? Or deleted? Or changed to 'yes'? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
