[OSM-talk] Vote for Google to liberate their aerial imagery - *please help*

Andrew Ayre andy at britishideas.com
Sat Sep 12 17:56:05 BST 2009


Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:49 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> Google has a really enlightened guy called the "Data Liberation  
>> Front". His role is to make it easy for people to get their data out  
>> of Google - rather than it being locked in.
> 
> Notice that signing online petitions to encourage change is roughly as
> effective as urinating windward to stay dry.  Consider starting a paper
> letter campaign so it costs them time and money dealing with it instead.
> You know what most people think when they're the target of an online
> petition?  "LOL! *baleeted*"

Didn't an online petition just work with the British PM regarding Alan 
Turing? I signed the Google one - took me less than a minute so I didn't 
have much to lose by trying.

Andy

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