Re: Whence cometh the data in src/test/regress/data/streets.data ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:52 PM
> To: Bjorn Munch
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Whence cometh the data in
> src/test/regress/data/streets.data ?
>
> Bjorn Munch <Bjorn.Munch@sun.com> writes:
> > This file was checked in way back in July 1996, by Marc G. Fournier
> > but that doesn't mean he was the one who got the data from
> > somewhere. Does anyone know where it comes from? Or has this
> > information been lost in the mist of time?
>
> It's in the postgres v4r2 tarball with a file date of 1993-01-08,
> which means nobody around the current project has a clue.
>
> IANAL either, but I think it'd be fairly hard for anyone to assert a
> copyright on it given that it's a compilation of publicly available
> facts, and is surely not in the same format the information was
> originally published in anyhow.

Probably something from here:
http://www.freegis.org/database/?cat=1