[CivicAccess-discuss] Guerilla Open Access

[Daniel Haran]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
> Daniel Haran wrote:
>>
>> Next up: EDIDs. About that, does anyone have any current postal codes
>> for which there is more than one EDID?
>
>  I posted sample postal codes of that type as comments to
>
> http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1607
>
>  They are quite useful for testing any lookup tool, given you need to handle
> getting a results of from 0 EDID's (IE: invalid postal code, or old
> database) up to 6.
>
>  The two that return 2 postal codes that return 6 are both in the comments.

Those seem to only return 1 EDID in my recent tests :O

> Please: If you are scraping and infringing, don't do it silently as that can
> only harm us in the long term.  Do it a publicly as you can as a form of
> civil disobedience and tell your candidates as well as the party leaders and
> past ministers/critics that you are doing it, and why you believe this
> database must be legally liberated!

I'm going to be very public about it.

You and others on this list have tried for a long time to get this
data set. You wrote letters, met MPs, blogged and networked:
everything citizens working within the system should do.

Elected officials do not appear to listening to knowledgeable
advocates. If they are listening, they certainly aren't getting
results.

It is time to force the issue.

d.