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His site has about 20 other maps
Lawyer's letter plus donation link
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Customer Service Improvement
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The sad part
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not entirely produced with tax money...
In the case of public transportation, the government provides some funding for these services, but most of the money for operations comes from people using the subway. That blurs the line a little more. If the subway was free to use and entirely funded from taxpayer funds, it would be more likely to be freely available.
Also, not everything produced by public funds is freely available or should be. It completely depends on the model setup by that agency and/or its funding source. There is a large amount of information/research/services created or operated for by the government (local, state or federal) that is not free. It generally depends on the cost to create the information, whether or not the government wishes to monitor who receives it, if it matters that the government always keep the information up to date, etc.
On a side note, people tend to view maps as free because they get them on Yahoo, Google or Mapquest, but they are not. These companies make a large amount of money from providing advertising on these sites. They also only create the software and leave the map creation to a company called NAVTEQ, who makes the maps for all of them and almost all of the navigation systems worldwide. If you think about buying a navigation system for your car or application for your phone, you see the price more.
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IPod and Public Transport
James Hahn
Seattle, WA
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IPod and Public Transport
James Hahn
Seattle, WA
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Re: IPod and Public Transport
If the information/report were entirely funded by the government, then you would have the ability to file a freedom of information act to get a copy of the information, and you could provide it to others, but that IS NOT the case with public transportation. The majority of the funding comes from people using the service and advertising on the trains/buses. Public transportation entities are pseudo-government divisions because of this and are not required by law to provide you information or service for free.
Do you also suggest that because the goverment gives some portion of tax dollars to these groups that you should ride for free?
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Proposing a solution
Public Agencies' Public Documents Should Be Public Domain [on GearBits]
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If the information presented for download wasn't a scan of the current transportation schedual (as it appears to be) would it still be copyrite infingment? How about if the download was a map/list verifiable/generated by ones own observation?
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Arrrrr... Let Go of Me Pirate Map!!
States of America.
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Re: IPod and Public Transport
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Branding
I don't know, but I'd guess that drawing your own map wouldn't cause a problem, but using theirs which they view much like a trade mark, does.
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Does anyone have the maps?
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NYC Subay Map files
http://www.thenycsubwaymap.com/NYCSubwayMap.zip
Grab them ASAP and share them with others (host them, file share, bit torrent, etc).
Good luck.
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