[Publicwhip-playing] Re: [geo-discuss] Re: [Openstreetmap] Coders needed for similar project & UK FOI act request update.

Fri Nov 11 13:43:17 UTC 2005

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:41:57PM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> I think Roger is absolutely right formally on this. However should the 
> FOI request succeed surely that would imply that all British Citizens 
> are entitled to access to this data. If that were the case while re-use 
> would be prohibited why would redistribution to other (UK) individuals 
> be illegal -- it would simply be a quicker method of getting the data 
> than endless FOI requests by different citizens.

In practice there would presumably be a publication
scheme.

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