[OSM-talk] GPS banned in Egypt

Tim Waters (chippy) chippy2005 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 15:14:37 GMT 2008


Crikey.

Apparently, they were making a map for Nokia.

http://nationalnewsofindiadaily.blogspot.com/2008/12/two-detained-in-gujarat-after-survey.html

No statements from that telecommunication giant, or much in the way of
comment from the company they worked for (Biond Software).

Tim

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
> And now post-Mumbai paranoia:
> http://geocartablog.com/?p=900
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm
> Sent: 14 December 2008 00:38
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> Subject: [OSM-talk] GPS banned in Egypt
>
> Hi,
>
>   probably not news to most of you but until recently I had assumed
> that only a few outlandish places like China and Saudi Arabia had banned
> GPSes; now I read that Egypt - hitherto regarded by Y.T. as an at least
> halfway civil place - has had a GPS ban in place for 5 years now:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/09/egypt-iphone-mobile-gps
>
> Bye
> Frederik
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