While we didn't discuss it in terms of this specific law, this does match my conversation with the Riley county GIS department. As long as names aren't used, they do not have any problems with their information being used in OSM.
Toby On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Well I have been looking into the law today, and I talked to the gis expert > at the county. > First of all we are not importing the peoples names, so anyone doing a mass > mailing would be be just getting the address. > The data that we imported is being bought by many companies he said. And the > address information is being also available from the post as well. > I am going to talk to more people in the county or the state, but my first > contact said there should be no problem. All we are importing is the fact > that there is a house there with that number and the zipcode and the type of > landuse. > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Mike Dupont > <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, I did not finish that. I have already written to legal about it. >> Trulia and Zillow are using this data in full. I have stripped out all >> personal and contact information so I think that it should not fall under >> the no selling of contact info clause. >> The data is basically PD/ disclaimed >> http://www.snco.us/Ap/B_prop/Disclaimer.shtm >> >> the relevant law is : >> >> Kansas Open Records Act Statement >> >> By accessing this site, you are required to make the following >> certification pursuant to K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2): "the requester does not >> intend to, and will not: (A) Use any list of names or addresses contained in >> or derived from the records or information for the purpose of selling or >> offering for sale any property or service to any person listed or to any >> person who resides at any address listed; or (B) sell, give or otherwise >> make available to any person any list of names or addresses contained in or >> derived from the records or information for the purpose of allowing that >> person to sell or offer for sale any property or service to any person >> listed or to any person who resides at any address listed." >> >> maybe you could say that you can use osm to create an address db, but i >> think we should look into it >> mike >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Mike Dupont >> <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> 2. What is the license that this data is under? I did not see a >>>> copyright statement. >>> >>> This is basically PD data from the government. under the open data act >>> the only restriction is that the >>> http://kansasstatutes.lesterama.org/Chapter_45/Article_2/#45-216 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> James Michael DuPont >> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org >> Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion >> http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com >> Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org >> Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 >> Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 > > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
