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Re: r-cran-maptools_0.7.16-1_i386.changes REJECTED (fwd)



On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Julia Koschinsky <jkoschin@asu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> As far as we are concerned at the GeoDa Center, you're welcome to use
> our sample data at http://geodacenter.asu.edu/sdata for all of the
> purposes you mention, including sharing them with others, uploading
> them on your local server for your students, listing them on your
> personal website, simplifying the data, improving it, or other
> educational uses. We appreciate listing the credit.
>
> Our primary purpose for making the data available is for our tutorials
> and software use. If you or others find them useful for other
> purposes, please go ahead. Several of the sample datasets include ESRI
> shapefiles and a lot of them are based on US Census data - we're not
> sure what the legal restrictions are in this case but I can tell you

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/faq.html#38


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Arizona State University
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