[OSM-talk] Speeding

Robert Scott lists at riscott.ukfsn.org
Thu Nov 30 18:56:45 GMT 2006


On Thursday 30 November 2006 08:36, Scott wrote:
> Are gpx traces loaded anonymously?  The reason behind this question might
> seem paranoid but government can be right bastards sometimes.  From the
> gpx traces you can get speeds and if they have a user against them you
> could get accused of speeding.

This is not legal advice, but in the UK you would _never_ get prosecuted for 
speeding from this evidence. The amount of accuracy and verifiability of 
measurements needed to secure a prosecution is huge. Lawyers commonly get 
their clients off speeding charges even when caught by speeding cameras 
simply because of a ridiculously trivial technical error such as the clock 
being five seconds slow.

Really, there is no realistic way they could use data where you can't prove 
who was driving, can't prove that the timestamps weren't manually jittered, 
can't prove there wasn't a bug in the GPS, can't prove whether the journey 
was done in real life at all, can't prove that you weren't just in a taxi... 
with such data a defendant could claim an unlimited number of things. It 
would be a waste of expensive court time.

On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:35, Ben Robbins wrote:
> Also, the govenment arnt paranoid, there just money hurders.  They couldnt
> give a dam really.

Yeah yeah yeah...


robert.




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