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

[edodd at billiau.net]

> 2010/4/13 andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>
>
>> For the record I'm much more likely to trust Komzpa who's a long time
>> contributor to the community than someone who thinks citizenship has
>> any meaning at all in an argument.
>>
>
> Komzpa is out of reach of Russian state authorities. Russian citizens are
> not. That is the only thing I wanted to tell specifing that he is from
> Belorussia.
>
> K.

Can you also understand that the OSM database is also out of reach of the
Russian authorities, and being in UK, cannot even be pushed by
inter-governmental action?

We are getting some good ideas overall here
1. use a different tag which is not "industrial". You don't need a wiki
vote, you can just decide that in Russia these places are
"landuse=special" (perhaps use a suitable russian word). It is important
that this tag does not render. Then no attention is drawn to it.
2. render own maps without rendering the military tag.
3. don't fight over this - we can come up with ideas which will cope with
the situation and keep the main database intact.
4. on the russian wiki-vote I would suggest that the sponsor withdraw the
vote on the basis that the whole community worldwide is working on ideas
to come to a solution which will not endanger mapping in Russia, or China,
or North Korea.
Liz