[Talk-in] Bhuvan
Ajay Shah
ajayshah at mayin.org
Thu Aug 13 08:18:03 BST 2009
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:42:11AM +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:15:33 +0530
> "Shajeer Mohammed" <shajeer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Looks promising. Has any tried this yet?
> >
> > http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/out
>
> Site seems down at the moment.
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuvan
> >
> > Can we use this for tracing maps?
>
> Not until the government of India clarifies what licence the
> data are issued under. OSM is very strict about copyright,
> and rightly so.
At present, is the bhuvan project saying anything about open licensing
or are they silent?
The last comment at:
http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/maps-vs-maps-data-appropriately-drawing.html
emphasises that the US TIGER license is more open than OSM.
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