[Talk-in] SoI / DST complain against Google.

Nagarjuna G nagarjun at gnowledge.org
Wed Dec 17 17:45:03 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 16 Dec 2014 9:04:12 AM H. S. Sudhira wrote:
> I am sure most of you are aware and keeping track of this. Survey of India
> / DST takes a step on digital maps representing the country's boundary,
> files a complaint against Google! It will be interesting to keep a tab on
> this. More troubles to Google, as this comes after the Mapathon event!
> 
> Here is the official word on this from their Facebook post
> <https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=894090357277177&id=277739
> 112245641&fref=nf>
> 
> It is observed that M/s Google Map is wrongly depicting external boundaries
> of India on maps hosted by them on different domains, namely
> http://www.google.cn/maps/@25.7377892,88.726647,4z and
> https://www.google.com/maps/@25.1367452,80.1073483,4z , which are not
> equivalent to Government of India authentication.
> The correct official boundaries of India has been shown at
> http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/fil.../Correct_India_Map_1.pdf
> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyofindia.gov.in%2Ffiles
> %2FCorrect_India_Map_1.pdf&h=WAQGS5vQh&enc=AZNiarC7YaARtZIxN5apmQDyhCrncT0hQ
> 421xHVoYOMJyElRbJHsUeVdEovbwRg31QZYnJ6Nlxdp-UCqmSLCX3ld8SB53waywyaF2gItaG0Td
> ekJc3MYlcWOAa79FSP9FFg_KjEMmyIev-1WTmU3DOW9nPxYwx-2JM6D7QOUkFDVxw>
> 
> In this regard, on the instructions of Department of Science & Technology,
> Survey of India has officially filled a FIR with SHO, PS Dalanwala,
> Dehradun on 12-12-2014 at 18:00 hrs requesting them to take appropriate
> legal action against M/s Google Maps for displaying incorrect map of India.

osm may also get such a notice if we get popular.  Let us take the need to 
create a separate server for osm.in asap. 

--
GN





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