Monday, Jan 12, 2004 at 20:41
Just for the record, the reply from Glenn above was authored by me, Doug Roberts, who's helping Glenn with advertising on Exploroz. (an unrelated issue)
I took it as face value from George's followup that Hema had copyright of track files.
However, I would like David Martin of Exploroz to explain this fact in the light of his newsletter of 7.11.2003 which said . . . .
"I have spent this week starting work on a new feature of ExplorOz.com. It is called PointPlace - The Ultimate GPS Route, Point and Plot database.
As you can tell from the name and description it is all about digital GPS positions. We have extensively used all forms of digital mapping available in Australia and we have concluded that the majority of data available is excellent for the city and very poor in the bush. To solve the problem and to make it even easier to use digital navigation and mapping, we at ExplorOz we have decided to build a database of GPS waypoints for everything in the outback. We want this up loadable, searchable & downloadable database to contain all of Australia's unique points of interest, routes files and track plots.
I am looking for members who can assist me in the product development and testing phases. I do not want to build the product to completion only to find that I have missed or forgotten something. I expect that the remainder of development will take several weeks to months however I would like some input and testing of the components as they are built.
The system is currently at the upload and index points stage.
" end of quote from newsletter
Now, David, were you contracted to Hema then?
I understand that you were referring to software product development, but nothing was said about data like track files.
Please don't take this as a challenge, I think there may be some misunderstanding here about access to the data, and would apprecaite your comments.
rgds
Doug
from:
The Welshmun & The Witch
setting off in 2004 for 2+ years
in '93 Series 80 & Dream Camper
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