[OSM-legal-talk] Any thoughts on the Friday WAPO article referencing OSM RE: India Mapping?

[Luis Villa]

It's not just the disputed border; the bill as proposed would make it
illegal to possess "geospatial data", i.e., copies of OSM, without a
license:

http://geoawesomeness.com/problems-with-the-geospatial-information-regulation-bill/

Luis


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:35 PM Mr. Stace D Maples <stacemaples at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Anyone else noticed this? Pretty hefty fine, and the article specifically
> references the OSM depiction of disputed boundaries as problematic.
>
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/06/cartographers-beware-india-warns-of-15-million-fine-for-maps-it-doesnt-like/
>
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