[Openstreetmap] Disclaimers on rights of way?
David Cantrell
david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Dec 6 14:11:12 GMT 2005
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:17:11AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On 6/12/2005, "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > [ ten lines of opacity ]
> I'm alergic to opaque legalese bullshit and think the world is starting
> to be run by and for the benefit of lawyers. This trend must be
> reversed.
>
> How about a plain English disclaimer like this:
> The data in OSM is collected from individuals. We can't make any claims
> or guarantees of accuracy because they could be putting any old garbage
> in our dataset. Be sure to take this into account when using the data
> and don't rely on it for anything really important.
How about "Our data might be wrong.".
Can anyone do better than 5 words?
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