On 13 Jul 2009, at 18:58, Gervase Markham wrote: > 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.
http://abcnews.go.com/wnt/Story?id=3005890&page=1 > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > Best Steve _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk