The meetup has taken place and overall I liked it. I managed to get lost on the way
from the station to the old town. (Don't ask me how I did it, I can't explain it.
According to the map it was just straight on...)
more information on Kudzu meetups ...
The map I had here has now cost me quite a bundle:
Cease and desist letter from the attorney of Euro-Cities AG, owners of
www.stadtplandienst.de including damages and fees.
The total was nearly 500 Euros. :-(
Unfortunately they were right, I should have known. What actually surprised me was
that the attorney fee was "only" a third of the total. I had expected more after
reading all these stories about cease and desist letters lately.
What can I say? Had they asked me by email to either remove the map or buy it, I
might have eben bought it. This way
it leaves some bad taste and an entry in my personal black list of companies from which
I'll never buy anything.
later:
I remember now, why I copied the map rather than just linking to it. I tried and
failed to get a map on stadtplandienst.de that covered Duesseldorf old town as well
as the train station. Their user interface frustrated me so much that I analyzed
the html code of the pages and built my own map. And since I could not print it due
to a lack of a working printer I put it on my homepage so I could print it at work.
And of course I made the mistake of not deleting it as soon as I didn't need it any
longer. (I should have bought a map on paper at the nearest book store, would have
saved me some money, or even buying a new printer would have done that...)
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