[Talk-in] OSM and New Indian Geospatial Guidelines

[sreeram kandimalla]

I have some questions, they are in 2 sections, the before and after:

*Before the new geospatial guidelines:*

1.  Exactly how legally problematic was OSM in India?

 2. If it was indeed legally on shaky ground in India, Did the OSM
foundation know?

 3. If it knew, was it ok with violating Indian law and were the
implications thought through?
       a) Was the fact that India was never enforcing any of those
geospatial laws taken as a reason to just ignore them or
       b) They were clear that they were immune under UK law?

4. If the OSM India folks knew, was it put up on the OSM India wiki? ( I
understand that at that point of time given the irrationality of the Indian
govt rules.. OSM was the only recourse, but I hope it was put up there )


*Now for the current status with the new geospatial guidelines:*

1. Do you think the Indian Govt will strictly enforce the guidelines this
time around? ( Google seems to claim compliance already )

2. Is OSM aware of the New Indian Geospatial Guidelines?

3. Is the way things are mapped in OSM and the way data is stored outside
India put OSM definitely on the wrong side of the law?

       a) If it does put OSM on the wrong side of Indian law, would OSM
care to make adjustments to comply with Indian law and become legal in
India, given that the adjustments needed are minor ( This is where the
Indian OSM veterans I have spoken to were saying that OSM won't and was
probably the root cause for my eurocentric accusation/outburst, I really
had to dig in and think to figure out why I got so angry )

       b) If we are on the wrong side of Indian law and OSM says they don't
care.. Wouldn't it be the ethically right thing to do to put it up in *bold
*on the OSM India wiki page that you are about to break Indian law by
entering data here.

       c) Would being on the wrong side of the law with respect to storage
disqualify us from being able to use data released under GODL?
            i)  Is this something people want to get clarified, given that
the OSM Licensing committee has declared that it is fine with the license?
                - If we are going for clarification can we check if using
the geospatial data with truncated coordinates to create our own data on
top is OK with GODL?
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