http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog Just another weblog Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:47:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The LA Times recently discovered that "nearly 40% of the crimes reported in official LAPD summaries did not appear on the publicly available map at lapdcrimemaps.org," which in any case prohibits republication of its data and disclaims all responsibility for its accuracy. What's the use of that--radically incomplete data nobody will stand ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2009/07/13/crime-data-and-credibility/ Clay Shirky once described how the effort to wrest public data from public officials for things like crime might be more work than just replicating the data by crowdsourcing. As an example of this, he noted a Brazilian web service that let people do that by mapping their notes about crime and other issues. This ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2009/06/09/seeclickfixyour-city/ Copyright not applicable to geodata? (Open Knowledge Foundation) http://blog.okfn.org/2007/04/01/copyright-not-applicable-to-geodata/ Copyright of Public Records (Florida Court Interpretation) http://rulemaking.blogspot.com/2005/01/copyright-of-public-records-fl-court.html In Microdecisions v. Skinner, the court rules that a county may not copyright GIS maps. State law determines whether agencies may claim copyright. Since public records law forbids demands for fees, licensing fees may not be charged for public records. ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2009/06/09/some-legal-sources-on-public-data-and-copyright/ "You can have it if you agree not to show it to anyone else, and if we think you will pay a lot of money for it, expect a big bill." That's the gist of the Milwaukee County Automated Mapping and Land Information System's (MCAMLIS) policy with its data. MCAMLIS is a ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2009/06/01/milwaukee-county-sewrpc-mcamlis-and-emerging-data-distribution-policy/ If you have a moment to read and respond to this blog post at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I would appreciate it. Part of the difficulty in getting open gov data is raising it to awareness as a priority. Milwaukee County mapping site using copyrighted data By Ben Poston of the Journal Sentinel May. 26, ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2009/05/27/milwaukee-county-mapping-site-using-copyrighted-data-please-comment/ ­­www.creamcitizen.org is an unfunded, intentionally unorganized voluntary association promoting things like Urbanism, Open Government, Deliberative Democracy, and Smart Conversations in Milwaukee–through talks with invited spea­kers, over drinks and dinner, through informally organized projects and through our website. If you want to see Milwaukee grow and prosper–and join in shared inquiry about ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/creamcitizen/blog/2008/12/03/3/