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Hello,
I have received legal advice that, in spite of any disclaimer on the site, there is no guarantee against possible litigation as a result of having routes assessible via my website.As a private individual I am not prepared to expose myself to this risk (however small) and therefore have reluctantly taken the decision to close the bikehike route database.
For a start the facility to save routes to the database has been closed. In the near future I will also close the facility to search for routes in the database. In the meantime I suggest all users download their routes to their PCs.
I apologise for the inconvenience caused. I hope you can appreciate the reasons.
Simon
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12672783&highlight=
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thats a shame, it's a brilliant site.
Still, the best bit, the actual route planner will still be working.
What a load of bollocks. Why are people so bloody afraid of lawyers nowadays that they will stop doing things due to some theoretical risk of being sued, where the person sueing would have bugger all chance of winning. Seriously - the people who run the big commercial route sites (mapmyride, bikeley, googles my tracks etc) almost certainly have taken advice on this, and they'd be much more likely targets to sue, not to mention some of them being US based, so living in a far more litigious society.
Joe
(this also goes for our local council - who don't grit icy pavements because they claim people will sue them if they do,)