[Talk-ko] Copy of thread reagrding redactions due to copyright violations in North Korea

[Max]

On the website http://38northdigitalatlas.org/ they write:

"This project is in a beta development phase. The ArcGIS platform allows 
users to search the data by name (in English and Korean) for cities, 
villages, factories, schools, government offices, restaurants, shops, 
markets, etc. However, because this data is generally derived from North 
Korean sources, Korean and English spellings can differ from South 
Korean protocol.

Although there is already a significant amount of data available in this 
portal, we have much more still to be processed. Over time, periodic 
updates will be made to the atlas of both location data and satellite 
imagery layers.

38 North would like to thank the programmers at i-cubed, and our 
partners at ScapeWare3d and Airbus Space and Defense for their help in 
designing and building this portal. 38 North is also grateful for 
generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John 
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for developing this important 
digital resource.
Copyright: The material in the “38 North DPRK Digital Atlas” is 
copyright protected by the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins 
School of Advanced International Studies, 38 North and Curtis Melvin. It 
is expressly forbidden to copy this material or use it in any other 
format. Licensing options are available. For details, please contact 
thirtyeightnorth at gmail.com."


So basically they rip off DPRK official information to put it under 
their copyright. I bought a printed map in DPRK, will scan and provide 
it somwere.


On 04.06.2018 15:51, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> It's very sad. I have seen USKI at Johns Hopkins recently in Korean
> newspapers; USKI has been mostly funded by the ROK government since
> its beginning. (Only recently the funding stopped.) So practically
> that 38north's map data has been built using ROK taxpayers' money.
> 
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