<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks Kiran for clarifying. I'm glad that they have taken this initiative to bring SOI's data accessible to people. I think they should take the next step to make data more open given that lots of (taxpayers') money was utilized to create that database for development purpose. Anyway, I have sent them a mail regarding this issue. Let us see how they respond :-)<br>
<br></div>Aditya.<br><br></div>PS - The last time I sent them an email, they responded after 2 months. This is going to be a long dialogue :-(<br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 October 2013 13:46, Kiran Jonnalagadda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jace@pobox.com" target="_blank">jace@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Government data is not public domain in India. It's copyrighted and owned by the government.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However, government bodies haven't quite figured out the concept of a copyright license, so good luck explaining that to SoI.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Kiran</p>
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<p dir="ltr">(Sent from my phone)</p>
</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sep 30, 2013 7:27 PM, "Aditya Nag" <<a href="mailto:aditya.nag.2007@gmail.com" target="_blank">aditya.nag.2007@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Guys,<br><br></div>I've just now stumbled upon a site from Survey Of India <a href="http://www.surveykshan.gov.in" target="_blank">here</a>. It seems pretty useful and accurate. Can we use it to update data in India? And is it in the Public Domain?<br>
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