<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Copy right and Free Geospatial data. The very fact that the data is made public, indicates that </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>1. The owner wants public to benefit from it.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>2. To what extent the benefit should be, is left to the public, and no amount of policing can really help.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I hope, wisdom will prevail one day and all the data will be available as IFS (freely downloadable).</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">After all it is the tax payers money that has got into this. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> I Chengappa <imchengappa@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2894019032"><div><div dir="ltr">Copying coordinates is of course plainly wrong without the owner's authority. However any published data can be used as a reference and as a check. Bing maps gives us much of the information necessary for mapping, but identification of features is a separate matter. If the pwd data is being used for reference, e.g. to confirm highway codes, place names et.c., that should be ok, especially as the government would be the body to identify and name highways and many other
features. I don't believe the use of names can be copyrighted in any country. <br clear="none">
<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2894019032yqt9507962130" id="yiv2894019032yqt62280"><div class="yiv2894019032gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2894019032gmail_quote">On 5 October 2013 06:42, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ichattopadhyaya@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ichattopadhyaya@gmail.com">ichattopadhyaya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv2894019032gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Unless the pwd data is released at an open license, I suggest we not<br clear="none">
use it for osm mapping in any way.<br clear="none">
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Sent from my Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone)<br clear="none">
From: Yogi<br clear="none">
Sent: 04-10-2013 23:03<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv2894019032im yiv2894019032HOEnZb">Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Usage of <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.surveykshan.gov.in/">www.surveykshan.gov.in</a><br clear="none">
</div><div class="yiv2894019032HOEnZb"><div class="yiv2894019032h5">On Friday 04 October 2013 01:54 PM, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:doc.aneesh@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:doc.aneesh@gmail.com">doc.aneesh@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br clear="none">
> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.kpwd.gov.in/">www.kpwd.gov.in</a><br clear="none">
Thanks Aneesh, I'm mapping part of northern Karnataka and this kpwd<br clear="none">
webris link is very useful.:)<br clear="none">
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yogi<br clear="none">
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