[OSM-legal-talk] Warning about not mapping military areas

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Tue Dec 22 09:32:27 UTC 2020




Dec 22, 2020, 10:04 by frederik at remote.org:

> Hi,
>
> I notice that you might have been expecting to email the legal working
> group but ended up on a public mailing list. But why not, it's a matter
> that deserves some attention.
>
> However I fail to see what the argument is about. You said that you
> included a warning
>
>> As always, if it is illegal in your country to
>> map military establishments, please do not do so
>>
>
> which more or less equates to "please don't put yourself in danger while
> mapping". There's nothing to be said against that.
>
Note that if we accept that - then the equivalent is requesting people 
to not contribute any on the ground survey in China.

It is also against local law.

>  Now someone seems to
> have misconstrued your wording as "it is against OSM's rules to map
> stuff that is illegal to map in your country", which is (a) not correct
> but crucially also (b) not what you said.
>
That was me.

"please do not do so" seems to clearly imply to me that it is unwanted
and against OSM rules.
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