User talk:Tim mallery
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Tim,
I love the Slide infrared photo, but you or someone needs to find out whether it's a public domain or otherwise unrestricted image or not. You didn't include any license info when you uploaded it ... don't know how long you've been on Wikipedia but if you've just started, this is a major no-no.
I checked at the NYSGIS site and couldn't find any info one way or other. There are no copyright notices for that stuff, but that doesn't mean it's free, especially since they sell them and some of the other data for sale on the site is very clearly marked as copyright protected. Since this is an educational purpose, we may well be alright, but we need to be clear. Otherwise the image will have to be nominated for deletion.
For the time being I've marked it with a "fair use unsure" tag. Daniel Case 22:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Not sure if I'm doing this right, but here's the reply I put on the Slide Mountain page:
Are you asking about the infrared aerial shot? Back when the state first put up their GIS application, I asked them about reusing images. Their reply was that the data was from the federal government, and could not be copyrighted. They told me I could use it any way I liked, but they would appreciate credit as the source for the image, as I did when I uploaded it. When I uploaded it I specified that it was from government sources, and was public domain, but I see it doesn't say that now. Don't know why. As a sidenote, you can no longer zoom out this much in their application. Evidently it puts too much of a load on their servers. Makes it less useful, though. If you want, I can dig up that email from the NYGIS, I must have it somewhere (it was 5 years ago!). Also, I liked it better where I put it originally on the page, I wanted to fill that big white space. The page looks unbalanced now (IMHO).
On another topic, I have been debating rewriting the paragraph on the ascent by the state commission. I think it is an exageration to say Dutcher "sabotaged" the trail. Sabotage implies an action, Dutcher did nothing. That was the problem, he felt no obligation to get the trail ready for someone else to guide the commission up. IMHO, the fault lay with C.C. Winne, the hotelkeeper appointed to guide the ascent. It was really his responsibility to scout the trail and make sure it was ready ahead of time. Anyway, I didn't change the text because I didn't want to step on any toes...
Just looked up the email: On 20 Oct 2000, I received an email from Bruce Oswald, NYS Office for Technology saying "Our digital orthos are public domain. They can be used freely by anyone."
