On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:42 PM, H.S.Rai <hardeep....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajja...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can some one translate it? > >> > >> or just brief here what is there in above link. > > > > Google is planning a Mapping Party on February 5th. The Intelligence > wing > > of Government of Kerala has reported to the Home Ministry that this is > > to be prevented due to security reasons. > > Can they apply same logic to OSM mapping? > Yes they can. > > If no, it is O.K, but are they know difference between OSM and Google, > and is that difference make any difference to security? > They do not know the difference at this point. But, the press note will make this far better clear. > > If yes, then what OSM community need to know and how to proceed further. > We need to make them aware that, now even mobile phones have GPS technology. With this level of technology prevention of mapping can be done only through a government intervention or a ban, but that seems to be purely against democracy. Regards. > -- > H.S.Rai > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > -- Sajjad Anwar | http://geohackers.in | Blog: http://sajjad.in
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