[Talk-in] CBI & google maps

[Ravi Kumar]

Hi,
All listers are actually mappers in India. Nice that this thread is bringing to fore a very pertinent point.

I have been mapping since four decades, and mostly for the central govt (GSI).
Mapping never remained the same after Google made it's digital globes and at the beginning of 21 century
made mapping popular.

For us OSM users we always have mapathons, declared or undeclared. 'Crowd sourcing' ,'Dos and Donts', of mapping will help us for sure.
But we have to do a lot of Garbage (News Data) mining for it.

Ravi Kumar

National Map Policy: Survey of India
http://www.medianama.com/2013/04/223-issues-that-survey-of-indias-complaints-against-googles-mapathon-raises-about-indias-maps-policy/

  
          
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On Monday, July 28, 2014 4:19 PM, Jaisen Nedumpala <jaisuvyas at gmail.com> wrote:
 


He he..,

  It seems that SOI has no problems if google privately having our country's geospatial data (That is always subject to the verification by NSA, FBI or whatever). But if google publish the same in the web through their mapping services, as that may become helpful for different stakeholders of this country at various levels, that would be considered as a serious sin. 

   Also, SOI is not interested / don't have ability to disseminate the data it holds, for any useful purpose for the general public of this country.

Sounds nice, right? :)




2014-07-27 19:32 GMT+05:30 Sajjad Anwar <me at sajjad.in>:

My thoughts are not very strong but, I think as long as we leave the vital points and defense installations out of the map, we won't grab much attention. 
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>Through Datameet and NIC, some of us are trying to setup a meeting with a few SoI officials to talk about opening up some data. More about that soon, when something concrete comes up.
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>Cheers,
>Sajjad.
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>On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Paramvir Singh <paramvir00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>What does it mean to OSM? Any experts? 
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>>Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>From: Deepak Cherian
>>Sent: Sunday, 27 July 2014 7:17 PM
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>>Have you guys seen this?
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>>http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/google-mapping-comes-under-cbi-scrutiny/article6254654.ece?homepage=true
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>>"The internet giant had not taken permission from Survey of India, 
country’s official mapping agency, before organising a mapping 
competition in February-March 2013 when they asked citizens to map their
 neighbourhoods, especially details related to hospitals and 
restaurants."
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>>Deepak
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