[OSM-legal-talk] Vote for Google to liberate their aerial imagery - *please help*

[Paul Johnson]

Matt Amos wrote:

> On 9/12/09, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:49 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>> Google has a really enlightened guy called the "Data Liberation
>>> Front". His role is to make it easy for people to get their data out
>>> of Google - rather than it being locked in.
>>
>> Notice that signing online petitions to encourage change is roughly as
>> effective as urinating windward to stay dry.  Consider starting a paper
>> letter campaign so it costs them time and money dealing with it instead.
>> You know what most people think when they're the target of an online
>> petition?  "LOL! *baleeted*"
>
> seems to work at least as well as writing to my MP. the responses have
> always been of two general forms:

Writing to your MP is a tad less ignorable, especially if you send it
physically rather than electronically, bonus points if you ship it "To
be delivered ONLY to addressee" and "Return receipt required."  Your
congressman's postman will probably hate you forever for making them
track down a congressman directly to deliver mail, but better that then
thinking some random internet petition does more than waste server
resources and electrons that could be better spent in almost any other
way.