Thanks for true OSM dedication and your great community engagement, Tod!
In fact, it was Santa Clara County which lost the court case (as defendant, CFAC -- the California First Amendment Coalition -- was the plaintiff) which in essence declared, "GIS basemap/geospatial data produced by public agencies in California must be made public." (The case is CFAC v. Santa Clara County, No. 1-06-CV-072630.) It's a fairly easy thing to find with an easy Internet search.
This means that no California County can put onerous license restrictions on public data: the data simply are public, and by court order. (Yes, even certain Creative Commons agreements can be considered onerous when compared with "public domain"). I am not an attorney, though I can read.
I do recommend that you request whatever data you wish to use in OSM directly from the County. This creates a "nexus" by a state Citizen, who if s/he also agrees to OSM's Contributor Terms, has every right to enter the data into OSM. Well, OSM community standards as to the appropriateness of any given "data import" notwithstanding, of course. And being local to your area, I look forward to more complete address data in Silicon Valley. Provided they are entered carefully, with high quality and by following our standards.
You'll want to do just what you outlined (on surface they seem like reasonable steps), but please post to the imports-us list as well. First, read our wiki's Import/Guidelines and Import/Catalogue pages so you can do what they say.
In short, I believe this is a reasonable thing to do. I encourage others to either encourage Tod as I do here, or submit good reasons why he shouldn't. Additional suggestions for improvement are, of course, welcome.
Have fun! SteveA California _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
