[Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in

[Aditya Nag]

Thanks Kiran for clarifying. I'm glad that they have taken this initiative
to bring SOI's data accessible to people. I think they should take the next
step to make data more open given that lots of (taxpayers') money was
utilized to create that database for development purpose. Anyway, I have
sent them a mail regarding this issue. Let us see how they respond :-)

Aditya.

PS - The last time I sent them an email, they responded after 2 months.
This is going to be a long dialogue :-(


On 4 October 2013 13:46, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:

> Government data is not public domain in India. It's copyrighted and owned
> by the government.
>
> However, government bodies haven't quite figured out the concept of a
> copyright license, so good luck explaining that to SoI.
>
> Kiran
>
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
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>
> (Sent from my phone)
> On Sep 30, 2013 7:27 PM, "Aditya Nag" <aditya.nag.2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I've just now stumbled upon a site from Survey Of India here<http://www.surveykshan.gov.in>.
>> It seems pretty useful and accurate. Can we use it to update data in India?
>> And is it in the Public Domain?
>>
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