[OSM-talk] Mapping where it is illegal (was: [Talk-GB] Are we all terrorists?)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

I'm taking this to talk from talk-gb.

> We may not be all terrorists, but we are participating in terrorist  
> behaviour.
> £10 in cigarettes  and a phone call for the first person to be
> arrested and held for a month from mapping.

I wonder what our moral position on mapping vs. local laws should be.

Do we encourage people to break the law of their country when  
contributing to OSM, or do we ask people to respect the law of their  
country? Or is it the somewhat imperialist "respect the law unless it  
is made by stubborn Chinese apparatchiks or fanatical mid-east mullahs"?

If someone proudly uploads tracks from China, thereby compromising -  
in the eyes of the Chinese - their national security, what do we say?

Personally I am leaning towards the slightly sub-culture "we map  
everything no matter what people say". But that's probably not a  
tenable "official" position, especially as logic would dictate that  
if someone, in the UK, trespasses on someone else's land and maps  
their garden paths, that data should be as welcome as illegally  
collected tracs from China.

Bye
Frederik

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