[HOT] India ban on "unofficial maps"

Arun Ganesh arun.planemad at gmail.com
Fri May 13 18:58:43 UTC 2016


Hi Kate,
The open data community has collected shared notes and responses to the
bill here:
https://datameet.hackpad.com/The-Geospatial-Information-Regulation-Bill-2016-zJwgcQaIvBq

The idea is definitely to respond with a better alternative. No comment has
been made to the Government so far.

Arun



On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:

> Hey Sajjad,
>
> Have you also sent comments directly to the government? You said you were
> collecting responses, is that in form other than "this is bad". I am no
> expert on India but some of my other contacts on my trip this week have
> said they are looking for ways to make suggestions of a better approach (I
> am not sure what this would be).
>
> Best,
>
> Kate
> On May 13, 2016 8:58 AM, "Sajjad Anwar" <me at sajjad.in> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Ralph - thanks for bringing this here. A few of us have started a
>> campaign and collecting responses to the ministry to reduce the scope
>> of this bill. You can follow the conversations on
>> http://savethemap.in/
>>
>> The bill in it's current state is very unlikely to get approved. Will
>> keep you posted.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sajjad
>> (https://twitter.com/geohacker)
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Carissa Brittain
>> <carissa.brittain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The article in Geospatial World
>> > (http://geospatialworld.net/Professional/ViewBlog.aspx?id=477) has a
>> link to
>> > the May 5 draft of the bill
>> > (
>> http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft-NGP-Ver%201%20ammended_05May2016.pdf
>> )
>> > but it doesn't seem to be complete.
>> >
>> > Techdirt's article
>> > (
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160509/09563834390/indias-proposed-geospatial-information-regulation-bill-would-shut-down-most-map-based-services-there.shtml
>> )
>> > seems to have a more complete version:
>> >
>> http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/GeospatialBill_05052016_eve.pdf
>> >
>> > 'Carissa Brittain
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Ralph Aytoun <
>> ralph.aytoun at ntlworld.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> An item for discussion.
>> >> This particular scenario existed when I was working for Philip’s and we
>> >> had to send to India for prior approval, an exact copy of any map of
>> India
>> >> that we would include in any of our atlases. It appears that India is
>> going
>> >> to roll this out further.
>> >>
>> >> Is this something HOT will have to get prior permission for in the
>> event
>> >> of a natural disaster? It certainly appears that way.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36276754
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >> Ralph Aytoun
>> >>
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