[OSM-talk] april fools joke, copyright eastereggs

[David Earl]

The Automobile Association in the UK had to pay out 20 million pounds 
when it was caught copying Ordnance Survey material.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/mar/06/andrewclark

'She [OS spokesperson] stressed that Ordnance Survey's "fingerprints" 
did not extend to putting misleading features in maps: "There are some 
publishers who put de liberate mistakes in their maps. We don't do that 
- it would mislead our customers. For us, it's more about the style we 
use."'

David


On 31/05/2008 09:23, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> About the following april fools joke:
> http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=287
> 
> Can someone please add a BIG SIGN that this is a joke? This may be obvious for 
> osm-activists, but we just had a german newspaper bringing just this message.
> 
> This question often arises up seriously by people not familiar with the 
> structure of osm, so it was probably not the best idea to make this an april 
> fools joke.
> 
> 
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