Hi, Eugene Iline wrote: > And that is all that happens. It seems to me that this little local rule > of excluding landuse=military on the territory of Russian Federation > will give OSM in Russia clear chanses not to be negatively influenced by > state officials.
It is perfectly ok for you to create a copy of OSM data with landuse=military removed or changed to something else, or any other "little local rules" you think appropriate. I guess that you could even use the OSM dev server for such an endeavour, or otherwise get technical support from the community if you need it. The one thing that is *not* ok is changing existing landuse=military tags *in the main database* to something else. This is the one important thing I took from Komяpa's message - people attempting to remove information from OSM hoping to please their government. If he was wrong about this, then all the better. If he was right, then no matter what you tell me about Komяpa's "emotional comprehension of the situation", your proposed actions are detrimental to OSM and I have to thank him for bringing them to a wider attention. It is certainly good to have this discussion, and I may have the benefit of living in a country which doesn't care a lot about these things[*], but my opinion is that we should not make our maps lie just to be more palatable to any country's current government. If a country is not mature enough for community mapping and the un-controllable spread of information that goes along with it, then OSM cannot thrive in that country and I'd rather not map there at all. Bye Frederik [*] OSM Germany were recently contacted by someone in the military and asked to remove two specific buildings from the map. We declined and pointed out that these exact buildings were also on a public site map on the official web site of the location in question. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
