Hi, As was mentioned above, I'm not Russian citizen, I'm from Belarus, which has a lot stricter laws sometimes.
This message represents my point of view, that may or may not be supported by other members. Most of the quotes are approximate, since initially they were badly grammatically constructed and can't be directly translated to English. If I had totally misunderstod something, feel free to correct me in this thread. (I had to write this passage after reading some PocketGIS team members' comments on forum like "shame to do like this" and calling that initial letter a coward act and "calling a third force to the discussion". PocketGIS wasn't called a third force, talk@ was.) About legality. There are readings of laws in forum thread that state "you can't give out a secret that you weren't told", and that a person needs to sign a paper when they gain access to military secret data. I think they won't publish it in OSM anyway. Reference numbers of military areas are usually printed on enterance gates, and usually can even be photographed. Second, a bit about Wikimapia. Wikimapia: 1) is a project that is hosted in Russia and by russian citizens 2) has a lot more military features mapped, up to types of missles 3) there are no attempts to prevent Wikimapia from doing that, neither legally nor by brute force. A bit of background about PocketGIS. Right after Zkir published his translarion of first Frederik's e-mail in a forum thread that was calling everyone to vote "delete all military features and do everything allowed by law against people who add them", he was told that his post will be deleted in case he doesn't provide the translation for the whole thread in 24hrs, and that it shouldn't be discussed in that pinned topic. (http://tinyurl.com/y6v8otc) Forum thread on OSM froum also contains some interesting answers to this maillist thread. If their respective authors won't post themselves, I will translate and post those here. -- Komяpa aka Darafei Praliaskouski http://osm.komzpa.net xmpp:m...@komzpa.net mailto:m...@komzpa.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
