Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity
On 5/8/2013 10:38 PM, Alex Barth wrote: OSM data and the OSM software ecosystem can play a huge role in this context. Open source and open data has proven its worth in tearing down institutional boundaries and making teams cooperate more efficiently many times over. That's the reason why we at the OSM US chapter are trying to connect government with government around using OSM: Good article - are there any rules that the result of US Government projects be public domain? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity
Good article - are there any rules that the result of US Government projects be public http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105 Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity
Hello, Mike N on 2013-05-09: On 5/8/2013 10:38 PM, Alex Barth wrote: OSM data and the OSM software ecosystem can play a huge role in this context. Open source and open data has proven its worth in tearing down institutional boundaries and making teams cooperate more efficiently many times over. That's the reason why we at the OSM US chapter are trying to connect government with government around using OSM: Good article - are there any rules that the result of US Government projects be public domain? Works by federal government employees are public domain, but works by contractors are not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government Sean Bartell ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity
On 5/9/2013 9:26 AM, Sean Bartell wrote: Works by federal government employees are public domain, but works by contractors are not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government Sean Bartell For the kinds of data we're talking about, practically all data developed under contract to the federal government is public domain. Exceptions would be data like teleatlas or natvtek that they license. For example, the US Census Bureau paid over $200M to contractors (mainly Harris Corp) to update the census streets and associated data for the 2010 census. Its all public domain, unless other restrictions are applied, e.g. the census bureau doesn't release the individual address points they collected due to some kind of privacy law. USGS has been using contractors for years to update their mapping data, and all that data is public domain. Brian May ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] H. R. 1604 bill looking to force US government to contract out much of its mapping activity
Great read by Brian Timoney on MAPPS' proposed H.R. 1604 bill looking to force USG to contract out much of its current mapping activity. He questions whether the same contractors that made mapping into what it is today in the USG are the ones who can be trusted to come up with a solution to well known efficiency problems. http://mapbrief.com/2013/05/08/geospatial-contractors-cynically-attempt-to-take-over-us-federal-mapping/ OSM data and the OSM software ecosystem can play a huge role in this context. Open source and open data has proven its worth in tearing down institutional boundaries and making teams cooperate more efficiently many times over. That's the reason why we at the OSM US chapter are trying to connect government with government around using OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.us/2013/04/openstreetmap-in-government/ Thanks to Dane Springmeyer for forwarding this to me earlier today. -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
