Comments on: Map Masher Marshall

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:53:14 +0000

“Is there any way of telling Tfl how we all feel?”

Yes: https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/contact_form.shtml

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:41:55 +0000

Sometimes you really have to question if the PR and lawyers of these companies realise just how stupid action like this makes them look.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:22:42 +0000

I’m a volunteer ambulance officer and my wife is a doctor volunteering as a Medical Incident Officer with the statutory ambulance services, including London. I think that some of your maps will prove very useful for both casual enquiries we get from the public when at major events and for planning deployments in an emergency, and I will be putting them in our emergency documentation packs. I have tried getting maps in the past from TFL, to no avail, so the link from The Register mentioning your plight was very opportune.

I hope this silver lining to your current cloud is a small bit of comfort.

Charles

By: Dino

Dino — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:35:34 +0000

Hey Geoff,

Great site, I’ll be ripping off your 50p iPodness very soon in the cunning guise of “Send me a Quarter”…

Anyway, as an expat Brit based here in the US, I’m shocked by the response of your ISP to all this.

Let me know if you’re looking for an alternative host, as I have my own server and a bunch of GB going spare. You can hide across the pond on a private server for free, if you like!

Cheers,
Dino

By: Jon Allen

Jon Allen — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:25:01 +0000

The cafepress has been removed already :

Tubemap Store
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Closed by TFL after less than a day’s trading.

Thanks, guys.

By: NN

NN — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:59:11 +0000

It’s amazing that TfL can’t see that a site like yours is essentially just good publicity for them… even the “rude map”…

I wonder how much of my tax money they’ve wasted on taking you down – this the legal equivalent of “happy slapping”…

Hope you manage to shame them into capitulating!

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:13:23 +0000

Firstly, I’m not saying that I agree with TfL for doing this, but there is no question that TfL are correct, and they do own the copyright on the Tube Map. Throughout most of the world, via the Berne Convention. And the maps hosted here were breaching that copyright.

As for linking to copyrighted material – well, as someone said, all material is copyrighted. But I can see what your hosts mean. And you’ve very likely breached their T&C’s, so if they wanted to pull the whole site down, they’re more than welcome to, whether the other stuff is your copyright or not.

There we go, that’s my, probably rather unpopular, 2p.

By: ian (the voice of reason)

ian (the voice of reason) — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:18:32 +0000

Simon. Would it be ironic if that could raise enough to pay for a licence?

By: Roland J Young

Roland J Young — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:00:03 +0000

I’ll do something special with this for you mate . . .

Yuo know me, always have good idea, wait and see I am sure you’ll enjoy what I planned.

Take Care

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:39:48 +0000

I see someone’s put a whole bunch of related merchandise on Caf�press, too. Mug looks nice.