On 08/07/09 12:13, Stephen Gower wrote: > Actually, for what it's worth (probably very little) the very original file > is provided as a PDF on the section of > http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that > marked from Royal Mail Group and dated 13 June 2008. The only reason I > mention this is that the first page has a copyright statement, and OSM > community opinion at the time was that with the whiter-than-white, > just-in-case-someone-tries-to-sue policy we have (had?) this info shouldn't > be stored in OSM.
But it's not this info that's being stored in OSM. The info provided is not sufficient to establish the location of the postbox (as I have found, having hunted, occasionally for quite some time, for all 44 of them in N14). What we are storing is the exact location. Royal Mail doesn't know the exact location of all its postboxes. If we find out for them, what are the chances they would sue us? It's flipping useful from their point of view. They could apply proper Travelling Salesman algorithms to them to optimise pick-up routes. Gerv _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
