[OSM-talk] Abnormal votings on military objects in RU wiki part; PocketGIS madness

Patrick Kilian osm at petschge.de
Sun Apr 11 12:30:16 BST 2010


Hi all,

> If there is something in the Russian DB that their government wants us
> to remove, then we should remove it. Otherwise it could escalate to
> the point where they block osm.org, or even have an edit war between
> us and hackers employed by the KGB^H^H^H Russian Intelligence. The
> entities in question are not routable, nor is there any point in
> searching for them, so clearly it is not worth it.

If we think like that, we'll have to remove all of our map data for
China tomorrow.


Patrick "Petschge" Kilian




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