topic Re: Public data use (legality) in Business Questions

Public data use (legality)

PollyDaugherty1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:21:01 GMT

I am working on a project where I am taking public data (sourced from the town, county, state and other organizations i.e. FEMA, census, etc.). I live in Florida and due to sunshine laws, this info is readily available. If I take this project and turn it into a business, will there be any legal issues with me using this data?

Basically, in looking online, I am finding other companies that offer services that seem to use the same data (i.e. parcel data) and I would assume that they are not doing the primary research to determine this data. I just want to make sure there is not legal issue for me to do the same. Most data that I am finding that I need is available to the public. I understand that some info is not claiming to be 100% accurate and I understand that.

There is some data that I am generating on my own, which will correlate to the data from public sources.

Any help would be appreciated - if I need to pay for the data, or legally add disclaimers, I can do that, I am just trying to get prepared moving forward.

Re: Public data use (legality)

Anonymous User — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:38:39 GMT

I am not sure of the laws In Florida, but a good start will be to have a look at the data sources that you use and see if there are any disclaimers.

Also, look at the data you are providing and determine if the data is filling a gap in the market

If there is data make by yourself or collected by yourself, I would imagine you have control over how that is distributed.

Re: Public data use (legality)

RandolphBell — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:05:51 GMT

I am interested in obtaining the property info from addresses that sustained major damage from Ian? Can you help? Randolph Scott Bell rsb@beaccorppm.com

Lee County Damage Assessments (arcgis.com)