Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-28 Thread Dale Puch
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > Santa Clara county was sued successfully, but not on a federal level. State > of California has the same PD rules and this can be used only for California > state and county data. > Don't have the link available right now but it can be

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-28 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Santa Clara county was sued successfully, but not on a federal level. State of California has the same PD rules and this can be used only for California state and county data. Don't have the link available right now but it can be found in the archives of talk-us But still you may need to check data

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2011-03-23 04:22, Dale Puch wrote: > > A quick note, do not confuse public records as always meaning public > domain. > Some states may not have laws specifically preventing agencies from claiming > copyright, not apply to all levels of gove

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-23 04:22, Dale Puch wrote: A quick note, do not confuse public records as always meaning public domain.  Some states may not have laws specifically preventing agencies from claiming copyright, not apply to all levels of government, or have exceptions to which works. IE. I think it was

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-23 Thread Dale Puch
A quick note, do not confuse public records as always meaning public domain. Some states may not have laws specifically preventing agencies from claiming copyright, not apply to all levels of government, or have exceptions to which works. IE. I think it was Michigan that specifically copyrights it'

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On 03/22/2011 01:13 AM, Andrew Cleveland wrote: > Thanks. The only indication I can find other than the statement on > ca.gov is that Wikipedia takes anything created by the state of > California obtained as public record to be in the public domain > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-CAGo

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-21 Thread Andrew Cleveland
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 23:13 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > For what it's worth, I did something similar here in Kansas. The > Department of Transportation didn't have any obvious notices about > copyright on the website so I sent them an email and asked. They > replied and said that all the maps publ

Re: [Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-20 Thread Toby Murray
For what it's worth, I did something similar here in Kansas. The Department of Transportation didn't have any obvious notices about copyright on the website so I sent them an email and asked. They replied and said that all the maps published on their website are public domain. So I added exit numbe

[Talk-us] Caltrans exit numbers

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Cleveland
Caltrans has freeway exit numbers for all California state and Interstate routes available at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/signtech/calnexus/index.htm . Their "Conditions of Use" ( http://www.dot.ca.gov/use.html#ownership ) say "In general, information presented on this web site, unless otherw