OMG Geograph

Have just phoned the police and its not illegal to put a photograph of someones horse,with an address for all to see on a public place.
Lets help the thieves?
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Ive just hada look, having just read H&H in the tub

Luckily my house/horses aren't on there, but there are some pics close by,

It is so scary thinking someone was closeby
 
In th artical it says that they've recently had only one complaint about a picture of horses, which was removed, but it's probably because not many people who's horse is on there knew it existed!
 
Photographs on a geographical website are not the cause of horse
thefts. Highly organised criminal gangs are. You can read about their
modus operandi here:

http://www.ukhorsewatch.org.uk/Information_sheet_No_7.pdf

That document contains a lot of good information on how to protect
yourself and your livestock. Amateur photographs present no threat at
all to you.


Kind regards,

Paul Dixon
Geograph Developer


Just got that e-mail off paul, i'm about to go off on one in my reply.
 
Cheeky little sod. I would ask him how he would like it if we took pictures of his child with details of where to find them so pedophiles could find it or a picture of his house with address and details of how best to break in!!!!

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Those are photos taken from a public road or path, but there are millions of satelllite views - these show inside property boundaries, parking of vehicle, stables, horse, trailere, gates, access routes etc
More than could be seen by any of the photopgrahers,
Just tpye your postcode in to
http://maps.live.com/
and click on Birsd Eye View
 
They wont delete the photo of my horse,
Have had much the same email back as you Chunckslovescooks.
He also said that it didnt include my address,but it DID,and it gives a grid reference.
How the hell can they get away with it.Not sure what to do now.Surely i have a right to say if a photo of my horse and my address goes on a website?
 
If we look it from another angle; how would you like it if i were to post images of your family, and your address, how best to break in. By posting images of horses and other POI's of criminals, they can start examining the surrounding area before they even get there! I think your unwillingness to co-operate with the equestrian community for the sake of a "game" is childish!

Stephen.

Just sent that, bet i get a reply like "you fiend! no one will stop my catalog of images! MWAHAHA".. everythings possible..
 
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Those are photos taken from a public road or path, but there are millions of satelllite views - these show inside property boundaries, parking of vehicle, stables, horse, trailere, gates, access routes etc
More than could be seen by any of the photopgrahers,
Just tpye your postcode in to
http://maps.live.com/
and click on Birsd Eye View

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True, but think it's the fact that there are close up views of horses and property on on this site with addresses which means that someone could feasibly 'steal to order' from just seeing pictures. Plus at least 10 of the photos I looked at from places I knew where taken from private access roads or private land.
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tallyho_two, use chunk's reply to reply to the person who took the pic of your horse. don't give up, it's your bloody property!
 
I tahught we got over the whole its gangs doing it! Sheesh, this guy is a sod! Ameteur photographs... SHOWING OUR HORSEBOXES AND HORSES ALL NICELY GRID REFERENCED FOR BRITAINS FINEST! ...How kind. surely if we dont want pictures of our land, they have to take them off?
 
Have just sent an email to the man the actually took the photo.See what happens there.Im not going to give up.They cant put my horse and address for everyone to see without my permission
 
He is clearly not that by the tone in his last email.
Now trying to think up a reply to him,but im getting to tierd to think straight.Think it may have to a tomorrow job
 
Problem is, most people would not know about this website, but if a lot of fuss is made about it, the thieves will get to hear about it too and start using it, even if they were not doing so before. We might be creating more of a problem for ourselves by giving them ideas.
 
Where have you seen any evidence it is used by criminal gangs? It's
all speculation.

There's far more intelligence available on horse related forums and
boards, why not close those?

Paul

Just got that off him.. ignorant sod, I reply They offer decent advice and knowledge to the equine community. Geograph doesn't. They don't give locations of horses, farms and livestock. Geograph does.

Steve.

Now the wait for him to try and turn it on me again!
 
I do agree minis-mum,but if horse and hound hadnt of done a feature on it i wouldnt of known that my address and horse was on there,and couldnt put the situation right
 
Found my horses there and a friends but didnt know whether to post on here or not so didnt
I got the same reply from Paul last week as shown in the H&H article
Definitely a funny feeling my horses were pictured on Xmas Day and I can see them from the house but dont remember seeing anyone walking but probably either cooking or eating!!
The caption is totally wrong but the circle on the OS map is spot on where they were grazing.
My friend actually knows who pictured her horses and he didnt ask her permission to put them on the site. She was furious.
 
Ordnance Survey sponsor them. Could be worth complaining to them.

Luckily I can't find any of the yards that I know. However I can find my local hospital, car garage, dental surgery etc etc etc.

They had photographic diarrhoea.
 
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