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It's a good idea, but they can't have their cake and eat it too. If it's so good for society that they get taxpayer money, the data should be freely licensed. C
by dTal 9y ago
It's a good idea, but they can't have their cake and eat it too. If it's so good for society that they get taxpayer money, the data should be freely licensed. Conversely, if they expect to monetize the data, then we should charge them a very stiff fee for having the monopoly on postal-van cameras (I find it unlikely the postal service would agree to let multiple companies mount equipment on their vehicles, if they'd even let one).
- Spivak 9y agoYou have it backwards. The postal service mounts their own cameras on the vans and then sells that data to companies wanting to build mapping applications.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThat data would then be produced by a US government sponsored entity, and should be licensed in the public domain.