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

[Aditya Nag]

I feel that this problem cannot be solved just by having a separate
server for OSM India:

(A) We would most probably be using OpenStreetMap's tile servers which
use planet.osm
(B) Even if we use our own tile server, we cannot fork the planet.osm
file to just change the borders of India. If we do that, we would have
to change the borders every time we update planet.osm file.

The borders would have to be resolved by consulting with the higher
powers in OSM.

Aditya Nag.


On 17/12/2014, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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