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

[Edward Bainton]

> > 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.

I agree: it's the tone of authority that I feel is not appropriate, as
if the wiki is telling people what OSM policy is. A more factual, less
hortatory tone would be better.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:33, Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk
<legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> Dec 22, 2020, 10:04 by frederik at remote.org:
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> Hi,
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> 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
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> As always, if it is illegal in your country to
> map military establishments, please do not do so
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> 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.
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> 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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