[open-government] GIS Data and Licenses

[Brian Gryth]

Rufus,

Thanks.  The more open the license the better.  I am just looking for
examples and options.  The municipality I am working with has a GIS
Ordinance that is somewhat restrictive.   I am trying to be pragmatic.  So I
am looking for the least restrictive license that still meets the needs of
city leaders.  Ideally, we'd get the data into the public domain, but I'd
rather see the data published than withheld.

Thanks,
Brian

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 2011/9/9 Brian Gryth <briangryth at gmail.com>:
> > Good morning all,
> >
> > I am researching the release of GIS data with or without a licensing
> > agreement.  Two questions:
> >
> > 1) Can anyone point me to a government that releases/posts GIS data for
> > download with no or minimal restriction?
>
> There's a bunch of geodata that the UK government has released without
> restriction [1] and of course things like TIGER [2] in the US are
> freely released (there's a bunch more geodata on http://data.gov/ --
> almost all Federal though I would imagine).
>
> [1]: http://thedatahub.org/package/ordnance_survey
> [2]: http://thedatahub.org/package/tiger-geodata
>
> > 2) Can anyone point me to examples of GIS licensing agreement?
>
> Are you looking for any licensing agreement or an open one? If an open
> one just use a standard open data license like the Open Data Commons'
> ones: <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/> -- there is nothing very
> special about GIS data in this regard (and if you are concerned I
> would note that the Open Database License
> <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/> was drafted with a lot of
> import from the OpenStreetMap community).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> > Any example will be helpful, but examples within the United State would
> be
> > best.  I am dealing with a city in the US.
>
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