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Subject: Re: Copyright of DRGs
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:47:03 -0700
From: Janet Collins <[log in to unmask]>


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Hi everyone...with appreciation to Trent Hare at USGS for
clarification...please see below...

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In the Global GIS volumes, there are some datasets that we did have to get
permission to distribute. Thus these datasets listed below are not public
domain and should not be copied in mass.

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ORNL, for their 2001 population dataset, decided not to grant permission to
redistribute their products. Users can still get them freely but it must
come from directly from them. For the 2000 population dataset, which is
only on the DVD volume (to be released), we have permission to redistribute
it. As for the regions CDROM volumes this uses the 1998 population data and
we were also given permission to distribute this. Given there new policy
for the 2001 data, you might not want to place the population data for the
public to use outside the Global GIS CDs, but give them the link for them
to download the latest data.
ORNL: http://www.ornl.gov/gist/landscan/ (2001 policy is also here)
On the Global GIS website:
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/landscan/landscan.htm example path to
data on CDs: data\database\mapbase\l_images\landscan\pop\na_pop.tif  Note
that these files are just color images based on the real data. Only the DVD
had room to place the actually data on there. The population values are
actually held in a course point file (image_pt.shp).

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Another dataset that required special permission is the UNESCO geologic
age. These cannot be redistributed without permission. As far as I know,
some of these maps are not available digitally elsewhere. See the
permission statements from UNESCO.
On the Global GIS website:
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/metadata_qr/geo_age_qk_ref.htm (looks
like the top one's format is a little screwy).
UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/
The USGS Energy group has final versions that can be downloaded too. Some
of
the Global GIS files are from thier files but some were roughly digitized
by us. Thus their versions, if different, would be preferable.
http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/wep/index.htm

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Some of the data on the last 4 volumes and DVD need direct permission from
ESRI. This would include:
World Administrative Units 2002 (files: admin02.*)
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/metadata_qr/metadata/ESRI_admin02.htm

World Cities (files: esri_cities.*)
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/metadata_qr/metadata/ESRI_cities.htm

On the US CD and DVD only:
U.S. Counties (Generalized) (files: counties.*)
no web link yet - should be on the North America CD.

Faults (files: faults.*)
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/metadata_qr/metadata/ESRI_faults.htm

ESRI Gazetteer: (DVD Only - files: esri_gaz*.*)
no weblink yet - should be on the Global DVD.

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The ESRI software ArcView Data Publisher cannot be redistributed either (it
wouldn't work very well without all the data there anyway).

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