Jonathan - the issue is not so much the data - that is the concern of the data owner to protect their property; the issue is the interpretation of that data. There is a danger that what is an appropriate interpretation for one set of legal, contractual and other circumstances is stolen (I use the words deliberately) and fraudulently used in a different set of circumstances to the detriment of both the client and the producer of the original interpretation.
kind regards
Paul Nathanail
Director, eMasters in Contaminated Land Management
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> Jonathan Churchill-Coleman
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> There have been some very interesting comments on this issue of
> publically available and public. In particular the insurance issue
> arising from using or relying information without proper permissions.
> I have even seen Phase 1 studies that had SCREEN DUMPS from the WIMBY
> site, I wonder how this impacts their PL Insurance??
>
> The FOIA, Environmental Information Act etc exist to allow concerned
> members of the genera public access to Environmental data. I remember
> once being told that WIMBY site often had *0,000 hits per day... I
> had never realised that we had so many concerned citizens.
>
> Jon Coleman
> www.findmaps.co.uk
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