[Talk-in] Google Mapping Party

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:42 PM, H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajjadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Can some one translate it?
> >>
> >> or just brief here what is there in above link.
> >
> >  Google is planning a Mapping Party on February 5th. The Intelligence
> wing
> > of Government of Kerala has reported to the Home Ministry that this is
> > to be  prevented due to security reasons.
>
> Can they apply same logic to OSM mapping?
>
Yes they can.

>
> If no, it is O.K, but are they know difference between OSM and Google,
> and is that difference make any difference to security?
>
They do not know the difference at this point. But, the press note will make
this far better clear.

>
> If yes, then what OSM community need to know and how to proceed further.
>
We need to make them aware that, now even mobile phones have GPS technology.
With this level of technology prevention of mapping can be done only through
a government intervention or a ban,  but that seems to be purely against
democracy.

Regards.

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> H.S.Rai
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