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

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 11 April 2010 12:37, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frederik,
>
> He did not give an exhaustive list of all the censorship laws, rules
> and regulations of his country. Rather he was just giving a little bit
> of background information.
>
> If there is something in the Russian DB that their government wants us

There's no Russian DB, it's a global DB, and for that matter do these
regulations say anything about mapping only *Russian* millitary
installations, or would you like to remove all of them mapped
anywhere?  What with the other data, like streets, that
administrations such as Chinese don't want us to have?

> 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 someone wants to publish Russian military information, let them use
> sites designed for that purpose, like wikileaks.

OSM is a place for georeferenced vector data.  Nobody is forced to
contribute to it or use it, so if your local law forbids it, don't do
it.  But then Ukraine, Belarus and India forbid amateur mapping, but
Google has their mapmaker parties there.

Cheers