[Talk-in] OSM and New Indian Geospatial Guidelines

[sreeram kandimalla]

These are the new geospatial guidelines -
https://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/documents/uploads/document-49301-New%20Guidelines%20on%20Geospatial%20Data.pdf

These are the relevant sections -

iv. (a) For the purposes of these guidelines, the threshold value for:

1. On-site spatial accuracy shall be one meter for horizontal or Planimetry
and three meters for vertical or Elevation.

2. Gravity anomaly shall be 1 milli-gal.

3. Vertical accuracy of Bathymetric data in Territorial Waters shall be 10
meters for up to 500 meters from the shore-line and 100 meters beyond that.


vii. Maps/Geospatial Data of spatial accuracy/value finer than the
threshold value can only be created and/or owned by Indian Entities and
must be stored and processed in India.

viii. Foreign companies and foreign owned or controlled Indian companies
can license from Indian Entities digital Maps/Geospatial Data of spatial
accuracy/value finer than the threshold value only for the purpose of
serving their customers in India. Access to such Maps/Geospatial Data shall
only be made available through APIs that do not allow Maps/Geospatial Data
to pass through Licensee Company or its servers. Re-use or resale of such
map data by licensees shall be prohibited.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:45 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-in <
talk-in at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Aug 16, 2022, 14:58 by kandimalla.sreeram at gmail.com:
>
>        b) They were clear that they were immune under UK law?
>
> India has no jurisdiction in Poland or UK.
>
> Russia cannot sue me for violating their censorship laws (or at least they
> cannot
> enforce it, unless they would send FSB to assassinate or kidnap me).
>
> In the same way Indian government cannot enforce their censorship laws on
> me or OSMF.
>
> 2. Is OSM aware of the New Indian Geospatial Guidelines?
>
> Probably no if you mean OSM community in general.
>
>        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
>
> What exactly changes would be needed?
> If it requires placing border not at its de facto location but at place
> demanded by
> India or Pakistan: not going to happen.
> If it is about mapping Indian/Pakistan claims: so people tried mapping
> disputed
> boundaries, this idea is disputed but not a clear no go.
> If it requires rendering Indian claim instead of de facto border on
> osm.org by default
> for everyone: this is not going to happen.
>
> ( This is where the Indian OSM veterans I have spoken to were saying that
> OSM won't
>
>
> They are likely right, see
>
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf
> for OSMF position.
>
>        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.
>
> Are you sure that applies to editors not mapping national border of India?
> And yes, it makes sense to give such warning if Indian government is
> enacting
> this type of laws. Just it should be accurate.
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