[OSM-legal-talk] Adding UK post box information

[SteveC]

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.

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Best

Steve