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StevenGourlay
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Gadjet
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| Darren wrote: | They claim to have employed a team of students as data collectors to collect the data. Make of that what you will. 6000+ locations in a few months. Possible I suppose at a push.
Of course there are other ways of getting your base data ;) |
Why don't you employ the methods of the map makers, place some deliberate errors in the database that only you know about and then see if they appear in the TomTom database. 
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Gadjet
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Sorry, hadn't read the last page, already been suggested. 
| Gadjet wrote: | | Darren wrote: | They claim to have employed a team of students as data collectors to collect the data. Make of that what you will. 6000+ locations in a few months. Possible I suppose at a push.
Of course there are other ways of getting your base data ;) |
Why don't you employ the methods of the map makers, place some deliberate errors in the database that only you know about and then see if they appear in the TomTom database. |
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Darren
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| StevenGourlay wrote: | 5801063370
5801513589
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Cheers Steve, haven't seen those before, we've filed 60 reports so far and all were removed 
5801284897 is blatatnt pirated software PLUS our map data! The gall of some sellers is frankly astonishing.
Anyway complaint filed
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Privateer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Darren wrote: | | We've filed 60 reports so far and all were removed. |
That’s good. How long does it normally take eBay to remove the items?
Not only can we play "Camera Spotters", we can now go "eBay spotting". I’ll go and grab my anorak!
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Darren
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: | | Darren wrote: | | We've filed 60 reports so far and all were removed. |
That’s good. How long does it normally take eBay to remove the items?
Not only can we play "Camera Spotters", we can now go "eBay spotting". I’ll go and grab my anorak!
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 , I reported the sites on Saturday morning and had confirmation that they had been cancelled this morning. If they re-list or list similar items again they risk account suspension
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fatmanscoop
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| just found this one if you want to take a look : 5801284897 |
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Darren
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| fatmanscoop wrote: | | just found this one if you want to take a look : 5801284897 |
See Steven Gourlay's post on the previous page, that was one of the three he reported.
Thanks though. It does mean we're making headway
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TopCaTT
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| Guys - why don't you just start charging for it? I'd pay £4 a month (£1 a week) to keep the points off my licence. |
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Darren
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| TopCaTT wrote: | | Guys - why don't you just start charging for it? I'd pay £4 a month (£1 a week) to keep the points off my licence. |
It's something we'd rather avoid if at all possible. We're going to monitor the PayPal donations, if they generate a decent contribution to running costs etc for the server that hosts the database then we'll be happy.
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chris_w
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Just checked Ebay. Nobody seems to be rushing to auction any Speed Camera Databases anymore. Only the three reported earlier are still left.
Perhaps the message is getting through?
I'm pleased about this, it would be a real shame to have to start charging for it.
Hopefully the offending retailers will follow suit as well.
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Bruggen
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 Take a look at E Bay
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5801513589
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| I agree with TopcaTT. I think the only way to beat these leeches is to charge a nominal subscription fee. This could be linked to a subscription service where you can only download the database from PocketGPSWorld. Another possibility would be to only allow downloads if you are a registered PocketGPSWorld user! |
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Oldie
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and Item number: 5800581077
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nej
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| RichXDA2 wrote: | | I agree with TopcaTT. I think the only way to beat these leeches is to charge a nominal subscription fee. This could be linked to a subscription service where you can only download the database from PocketGPSWorld. Another possibility would be to only allow downloads if you are a registered PocketGPSWorld user! |
But there's still nothing to stop somebody downloading it once and attempting to sell it a hundred times. |
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