[CivicAccess-discuss] MP Postal Code Lookups

[Russell McOrmond]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Cory Horner wrote:

> Taking these all together, I would think there shouldn't be a problem 
> storing the result of a postal code lookup in your database, but you 
> probably can't republish the data with the postal code attached.
>
> Do you guys agree with this assessment? If so, how might we boil this 
> down to a concise terms of use?

IANAL, TINLA, but I agree with your assessment.

   I wouldn't put it in a license, but as a user I'd be more liberal on my 
usage as far as the postal code.  It is more based on the idea that I 
wouldn't expect to ever be sued than believing that it is clear under our 
overly complex/restrictive copyright laws.


   Thanks for doing this.

BTW: I've had on my TODO for months to write something simple that uses 
the riding boundary shapes and converts a lat/long into an EDID.   This is 
what would be needed to make a simple GoogleMaps application to convert a 
click on ones home into MP information.

   If that magically showed up on an API elsewhere, that would of course be 
great ;-)   Otherwise, once I finally get the work done I'll still 
recommend you add such a function to your API as well.

   Are you running PostGIS and/or mapserver/mapscript at your end?

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