Would a city's published municipal code be an acceptable data source?
One example of such a listing would be http://www.sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/getBookData.php?id=&chapter_id=34746
Comments, opinions?
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Would a city's published municipal code be an acceptable data source?
One example of such a listing would be http://www.sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/getBookData.php?id=&chapter_id=34746
Comments, opinions?
Discussion
Comment from HannesHH on 19 July 2009 at 21:15
Not unless you got explicit permission to use their data in a license like OSM's.
Comment from Austin Henry on 20 July 2009 at 18:25
I would think that a city's statues could be considered "facts," and so not be copyrightable. You'd be taking statements about which streets are one-way in textual form, and transforming that knowledge into data on OSM. It's not like you're copying from another map.
I also expect that I'm wrong for various legal reasons which contravene common sense. Asking permission just seems like a safe thing to do, to be totally sure they can't turn around later and demand that the info be removed.