[HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

[Harry Wood]

Hi Faisal.
It was nice to meet you briefly at the London Ushahidi meet-up a couple of weeks back. Sorry we didn't get to chat longer.

I took a look at the mapping progress in Rawalpindi, and it looks like you've been doing some great work. I was even able to check my imagery alignment using all the GPS traces you guys have been gathering. Great stuff!


So I'm sad to hear about these new laws halting your progress. Let us know if you can see anything HOT or OpenStreetMap organisations could do to help.

Harry Wood



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 From: Faisal Chohan <faisal at cogilent.com>
To: Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> 
Cc: hot at openstreetmap.org 
Sent: Monday, 26 November 2012, 6:31
Subject: Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM
 


We were doing on-ground mapping in Pakistan especially our TED prize winner project "SaafPindi". After reading this news we have stopped on ground mapping and are not updating open street map from Friday on-wards.  We are just pondering different options.

Thanks,

Faisal Chohan

TED Senior Fellow | www.ted.com/fellows
Disaster and open data mapper | www.pakreport.org 
Co-Founder | www.BrightSpyre.com
Co-Founder |www.cogilent.com
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