Take a look at Geofftech's blog:
http://www.geofftech.co.uk/iblog/?p=235
Download those maps now! Feel free to distribute them!
I've saved them and if Geoff is forced to remove them, I am sure many people will upload them.
Please join in the fight, we won't let TfL win!
(BTW unrelated to the above: Help boycott TfL by not using Oyster and by getting your tickets from NR stations, preferably outside the Zones if you don't live in London. You can actually save a lot of money by doing this. I save £15 per trip, and ensure less money goes to TfL and more goes to a deserving cause!).
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If you want a laugh take a look at TfL's joke of a website http://www.onestopmapshop.co.uk/sections/lon_u.asp?id=7
£290.00 + VAT + Royalty charges for a map 8.5cm x 5.5cm
ign5:
This seems to be the reason for the clampdown in maps. They are terrified that people are going to download maps for free and print them for nothing. If they persecute people like us for daring to have maps online, then people may pay over £300 for them to print off a tiny little map for us, apparently. Yeah, right. Whatever!ign5:
I think £3 may be a more suitable price, assuming the map was of decent quality. £300 is a total joke, they're having a laugh!
Where will this lead? Will underground maps at stations be put into booths that have a £5 entry fee, so tourists who don't know where they're going have to cough up to view the map? Will the free maps they give out be £100 each? Will they try to charge us for memorising the maps in our brains? They'd probably want to, if they could. :roll:
http://www.geofftech.co.uk/iblog/?p=235
An overpaid lawyer said:
Download those maps now! Feel free to distribute them!
I've saved them and if Geoff is forced to remove them, I am sure many people will upload them.
Please join in the fight, we won't let TfL win!
(BTW unrelated to the above: Help boycott TfL by not using Oyster and by getting your tickets from NR stations, preferably outside the Zones if you don't live in London. You can actually save a lot of money by doing this. I save £15 per trip, and ensure less money goes to TfL and more goes to a deserving cause!).
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If you want a laugh take a look at TfL's joke of a website http://www.onestopmapshop.co.uk/sections/lon_u.asp?id=7
£290.00 + VAT + Royalty charges for a map 8.5cm x 5.5cm
ign5: This seems to be the reason for the clampdown in maps. They are terrified that people are going to download maps for free and print them for nothing. If they persecute people like us for daring to have maps online, then people may pay over £300 for them to print off a tiny little map for us, apparently. Yeah, right. Whatever!
ign5:I think £3 may be a more suitable price, assuming the map was of decent quality. £300 is a total joke, they're having a laugh!
Where will this lead? Will underground maps at stations be put into booths that have a £5 entry fee, so tourists who don't know where they're going have to cough up to view the map? Will the free maps they give out be £100 each? Will they try to charge us for memorising the maps in our brains? They'd probably want to, if they could. :roll:
