Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

2020-01-03 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:21 PM Kevin Broderick wrote: > However, that assumes that you can trust the news to be accurate, > Always a questionable assumption -- whenever you know the facts behind a story, you see what they get wrong. > and the distinction between "closed in winter" and "not main

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

2020-01-03 Thread Nathan Grasso
Since OSM is used around the world, shouldn't intellectual property laws in other countries be considered? Nathan Grasso https://osm.org/user/Hexocyte On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Wagner wrote: > In the United States, facts can't be copyrighted, only specific ways of > expressing them.

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

2020-01-03 Thread Kevin Broderick
However, that assumes that you can trust the news to be accurate, and the distinction between "closed in winter" and "not maintained for winter travel" is not one I expect the news media to get right. The article I saw quoted the driver has having seen a "Not maintained for winter travel" sign and

Re: [Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

2020-01-03 Thread Mark Wagner
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:47:35 -0500 Bill Ricker wrote: > Kevin asks, > > is Jefferson Notch Road actually closed to wheeled vehicles in > > winter or > just not maintained? > > Per copyright news reports, it is signed as closed to wheeled > vehicles, open to snow-machines only, in winter. > (As