While the policy is undoutably good, it does not follow that all data
published actually conforms to it (for example third party rights in
existing data could be an issue).
In any case on data.houstontx.gov the licence is specified for 7
datasets, so I assume the intent is to do that for all over
Hi Jan,
Specifically, here's is an example of the Geographic Boundaries page that
indicates a CC-BY license:
http://data.houstontx.gov/group/geographic-boundaries
On the left side, at the bottom of the list of information. I would surmise
that this applies to all the geographic boundary datasets, b
Ah, apologies, Jan, I was too hasty in my assessment. If you click on the
CC-BY link, you will see that only the "School District" dataset is CC-BY.
If you do inquire, I would first ask if the dataset you are interested in
is in the public domain, as that is possible under US law, and would be
most