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

[Ravi Kumar]

Copy right and Free Geospatial data. The very fact that the data is made public, indicates that 
1. The owner wants public to benefit from it.
2. To what extent the benefit should be, is left to the public, and no amount of policing can really help.

I hope, wisdom will prevail one day and all the data will be available as IFS (freely downloadable).
After all it is the tax payers money that has got into this. 
       


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 From: I Chengappa <imchengappa at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:58 PM
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Copying coordinates is of course plainly wrong without the owner's authority. However any published data can be used as a reference and as a check. Bing maps gives us much of the information necessary for mapping, but identification of features is a separate matter. If the pwd data is being used for reference, e.g. to confirm highway codes, place names et.c., that should be ok, especially as the government would be the body to identify and name highways and many other features. I don't believe the use of names can be copyrighted in any country. 






On 5 October 2013 06:42, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com> wrote:

Unless the pwd data is released at an open license, I suggest we not
>use it for osm mapping in any way.
>
>Sent from my Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone)
>From: Yogi
>Sent: 04-10-2013 23:03
>To: OpenStreetMap in India
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>Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Usage of www.surveykshan.gov.in
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>On Friday 04 October 2013 01:54 PM, doc.aneesh at gmail.com wrote:
>> www.kpwd.gov.in
>Thanks Aneesh, I'm mapping part of northern Karnataka and this kpwd
>webris link is very useful.:)
>
>
>thanks,
>yogi
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