Speed Camera Database to Turn Professional

james_uk9 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 26

That point i must admit i do agree with, even though i have gone i record on this forum to state i personally have no objection to paying for the database, it would seem the vast majority posting at the moment are firmly against the idea.[/b][/quote

Exactly! When all is said and done, be it £2 a month, £20 a year, or whatever is eventually decided, this issue has gone beyond simply the cost implications to download the db.

The Miss-management of the whole situation will in my belief be the deciding factor for most people. It is simply not good enough to retort with claims that the men in charge are not PR guru's, and then continue to ingnore the ill feeling that is being generated.

Imho, the number one priority for any commercial operation that finds themselves in this situation should be damage limitation. For whatever reasons, to put it in plain English, Now is the time that PGPSW need to apply diplomacy to the whole situation before it escalates into something beyond their control.

Ignore the baited comments in this thread, you have far more important issues to resolve, and playin tit for tat in this thread should be the furthest thing from your minds.

You have messed up, go deal with it sooner rather than later or you could end up in serious trouble.
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h5djr · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

I would also have no objection to paying a reasonable price for the upgrades, especially if the money collected was used to fund a version than was downloadable direct to Destinator PN.

The current method involes jumping through very many hoops !

So much so that I current run with a commercial database and program which is simplicity itself to use and update.

I enjoy this site and have gained a lot of very useful information, but I'm sure it's becomming more and more time consuming to administer.
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aliendad · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

One problem I have always felt ,is that us Brits are frequently jealous & envious of others making money, I fell it's the moaners who don't want to pay are the greedy ones, not the team.
I'm happy to pay, but perhaps for the moaners, is it possible to say per month the area of the country that has been updated? in case it isn't relevant to the purchaser before they buy. Smile

conroyd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 33

smstextaddict · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

Question for the PGPS lot who do the database, how much does it cost a month to run the camera location downloads?

s_roberts · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2005 Posts: 20

It has nothing to do with Brits, do you NOT understand that the datasbase is created by the users and now they want to charge the users that help created it - this is what the problem is.

How would you like it if you helped create something and then you were sold your own creation ? You need to use your brains on this one, it has nothing to do with the £2 charge at all - if they introduce this then those people that submitted cameras to they can set up parallel web site and see what this site can do about this ?? Most of the negative comments revolve around that fact that the database will no longer be as up to date as thos who contribute to the cameras will no longer assist in this.

Unless Pocket GPS some how compensates these people (which will be difficult) the database will be useless

CarMad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 20, 2005 Posts: 3

conroyd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 33

smstextaddict · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

Here's an idea, if someone submits a camera location to the site, why not ask other volunteers to check out the location to verify it, im sure enough people would be more than happy to verify a location if one was submitted.

conroyd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 33

chris_w · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

There have been a lot of constructive replies in between some of the more emotional ones : -

I'm just interested what everyone else thinks.....

What would people be prepared to pay for?

there have been a lot of suggestions around membership.

Is this something people would be more interested to contribute to?

I'm a paying member of another site and I find the member resources very useful. I suppose it would come down to what services and resources are offered.

What would we like to see?

if we can start answering some of these questions we might just be able to move this forward.

Any suggestions?
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