On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:15:02PM +0200, Milo van der Linden wrote: > Let them.
I am a Russian and Russian resident myself and I would agree with this. Please do not get in too serious untill some real actions are seen. Till that it is just the discussion and flame on wiki and Russian forum unless you dare for some small wiki and forum database space used by such discussions. IMO we have quite clear policy on how to behave with OSM database. If one do not want to map military things that's ok, he won't do it and we just will have blank space that will be filled by other Russian who want to map it. If somebody wants to map military object like industrial, forest or whatever, well, let him map it this way it will be just a mapping error and somebody will than change the tag to milittary correcting this error (pretty the same as with any other mapping errors that we may have). If somebody decides to remove military objects from the database or change their tagging than it is clear vandalism, since the person has intention to remove true infromation out of the map and we should threat and behave here like with any other vandalism on the map. Just make no special meaning for military here. There is no single opinion on this over the Russian community and all this dicsussion does not have any legal background at all. They cannot map state secrets, because I believe neither of them had or have any access to such secrets at all. Far broad problem is that mapping in Russia requires a license, but there are other public mapping project here held by legal companies that are Russian residents. A question of having a good laweyer. But this is completly another topic. -- Anton Martchukov http://www.martchukov.com 0xFC4FBF28 96BC 3DAB 231A 7FCC 4F49 D783 9A69 65C1 FC4F BF28 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
