Speed Camera Database to Turn Professional

RangerRanger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 3

I have been a member/supporter of this site for around two years now, the forum side doesn't really interest me, or at least it didn't until you started this nonsense of wanting to charge for information supplied by your members/supporters, as I had only posted once before when i went to post i found i could not remember my pass word so had to create this user name to send this post and my previous post, the fact that myself or any other person has not posted before does not give you the right to devalue our support in trying to justify you decision to make extra money from the database whether or not i have posted before, whether or not i have sent in cam updates, whether or not if i have made any donation, i am still a supporter of this site and still entitled to my views and the very fact that you try to devalue my comments because i have not posted before is indicative of the total lack of understanding you process about what is going on here, it's not really about money it's about trust and greed, because of you actions we now don't trust you and you have shown that you are driven by greed.

You have now lost my support and i have removed your links from both the web sites i run, i have also removed your rss feeds from both sites, and from the rss program on my PC, your site is now DEAD.

StevenGourlay · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject:

34 pages, must have hit a nerve withe the users of the speed camera database then, never seens a thread so long.
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biker1 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: Retail license

As asked in another topic...Will retailers be able to include the database with goods they sell???
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biker1 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: PS

If so, how much will you make from them??? :x
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NickT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 7

What has been said about so called "newbies" is absolute rubbish.

I myself use this site for help and new ideas to implement onto the Tom Tom unit I dont really post but I do "view".

You cannot take the stand point of only listening to the old seasoned pros here you have to listen to the community as a whole!!

So the big question is:-

ARE YOU LISTENING?

And if you are then I think you know where the community stands on this issue!!

tomtomgo · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

Go to the speed camera download page.
Scroll down to the FAQ's
See how the database is described by PGPSW, everything is "ours" "ours" "ours". Doesn't sound very community minded to me.
There is also a line saying how the database can never be charged for in any way. Obviously doesn't apply in this case.
It seems a classic case of "whats ours is ours, what's yours we take.

Simon1 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

BigR · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Seems sad that such an excellent forum should be split like this and i hope that the new changes do not start the beggining of the end for this site.
Too many times i have seen sites companies which are doing great decide they need to expand make changes to survive or impliment a charge to justify a better quality of service then go down the pan.

I hope this does not happen here, i hope that the guys in charge listen to what the members are saying and take into account that if this site can provide a service then so can others.

If anyone decides to put the data base that you have already collected of the cameras onto their own site and invite people to download it for free and to add input of new camera's,before you know it they could be as successful as this site.

Like my old nan used to say, why change a winning formula"

Good luck either.

Almahadeus · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 346

biker1 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject: Charging

Yes, exactly Twisted Evil

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RangerRanger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 3

Seems you are setting yourselfs up for the "Friends Reunited" route, making a killing and lining your pockets off other people's backs, there is more to this than meets the eye, why else do this the way you have?

Maybe TomTom or some other GPS company has already shown an interest? come on spill the beans, there is something else going on here!

Pootle · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

This announcement has created a lot of bad feeling. £2 month, £24 a year is not a lot of money, it's not about the money. A community sharing information then a few who have compiled that information now decide to charge for it? I will most likely pay for a download every 2 or 3 months if it comes to that. A community shares, knowledge and information come to think of it speed camera databases. A number of colleagues of mine bought garmin i3's and I happily updated their units with the camera database when they asked. PGPSW are entitled to do what they wish but the community is more powerful SHARE the file.....

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