Reposted by Linda Humphries
“It’s not “unethical” to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That’s just “a search engine””
Yesterday, 100k hits to mapit.mysociety.org by “Mac” “Chrome” (50k of them 5:30-6am). 72,831 IP addresses. Blocked at 8:20am.
It’s not unethical in theory. It is unethical in practice.
mapit.mysociety.org
MapIt : map postcodes and geographical points to administrative areas
MapIt: a web service that maps postcodes and geographical points to administrative areas.
