[OSM-talk] Getting postal workers to do the leg (wheel) work

[Nick Black]

On 10/13/06, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
<openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 11:41, Jack Challen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had an idea while driving a particularly odd route to work this
> > morning (I hadn't mapped that way yet): has anyone thought about
> > giving GPS dataloggers to postmen?
>
> This sound really tempting in the first place;
> but I think this might arise some legal Problems:
> Lets assume the postman is willing to accept publishing the tracks under
> CC-SA-BY licence.
> But:
>  - do we have to ask his employer if he accepts to have all
>    the routes published his employee are taking.
>  - And one more question about privacy concerns of his clients.
>    Do we have to ask all clients if they want to have published when
>    and where they received a parcle?
>
> Just my personal thoughts

Yes very much so.  I guess this is similar to someone hacking on OSM
at lunchtime at work and then releasing their code under GPL.  The
employer could presumably claim ownership over the code?

A good idea though.  I bet the Post Office/Royal Mail are paying the
OS big dollars for mapping data to plan their routes, but I doubt the
likes of the Royal Mail in the UK would want to upset their
QUANGO/Civil Service/Trading Fund buddies at the OS .  The executives
probably play golf/roll around in their fat-cat executive bonuses
together.

NIck

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> Joerg
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