[Talk-GB] Disclaimer

[Marc Gemis]

Do you think Google will be held responsible for this :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276503/Were-wealthy-married-couple-murdered-Google-maps-led-hitman-wrong-address-Their-son-DENIES-murdering-cold-blood-languishes-jail.html
 ?

Or would TomTom pay the expenses of this lady :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262149/Belgian-woman-67-picking-friend-railway-station-ends-Zagreb-900-miles-away-satnav-disaster.html
?

Blaming the fault on technology is all to simple. In the end you stay
responsible for your (driving) actions.

regards

m

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 28 January 2015 at 01:13, Neil Matthews <ndmatthews at plus.net> wrote:
>
>> Do we need an OSM disclaimer -- I've just had a mail from a gentleman
>> enquiring why an underground powerline http://www.openstreetmap.org/
>> way/127968407/history#map=17/51.50283/-2.55462 was drawn on OSM -- as he
>> didn't want to buy a house on top of it and Western Power told him the
>> powerline couldn't be there! I think he joined OSM just to message me?!?
>>
>> I suspect he might have been more upset if he was selling...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Neil (ndm)
>>
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>
> What if a driver has an accident and says "I got the map from OSM and it
> states this is a primary route - so I expected it to have been suitable for
> my journey.' ?
>
> Why doesn't OSM seem to care about the quality of the mapping - marking
> roads arbitrarily to someone else's classifications rather than as per what
> appears on the ground ?
>
>
>
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