No problem, Lee. You did the right thing and ran into a corporate brick
wall. Seems we've all been doing that a lot lately. Aren't we all glad
that the USGS is a government agency and that our tax dollars make those
buggers public domain? ;o)
Leona
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Zion" <lzion(a)plains.net>
To: <COGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: [COGEN] Re: Cemetery Maps
Mary Ann, Leona, Karen
(and any others I sent a map to)
DeLorme just answered my request for license exception to use 3-D
TopoQuad or TopoUSA generated relief maps in a Colorado Cemetery
Directory published on the internet with a flat no. No internet
publication, no questions, no appeal.
We can't even apply the "paper distribution" license terms and use the
less than 50 maps clause.
The "customer service" rep was even a bit sarcastic and continued by
telling me that if I couldn't understand the published license
agreement to contact their lawyer and she would be happy to read it to
me.
In the same DeLorme mailing as my answer, I received another email
with an offer to purchase an "Export Module" so I could easily include
maps generated by both programs in my CAD drawings or other printed
documents. B-)
So if I sent you a relief map to aid in locating a cemetery or ghost
town we don't have authorization to publish it.
The overprinted USGS aerial photographs didn't originate with them and
are ok to freely distribute.
Sorry,
Lee
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