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

[John Smith]

On 13 April 2010 08:37,  <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 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.

Even with 1, you will probably still need to do 2 since someone
somewhere will keep adding military tagging because they feel it's the
right way to do things because they're calling a spade a spade.

> 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.

The problem in Russia is that people are taking pride in being able to
map things to the nth degree, and the local military base just happens
to exist there, while other people don't want to get into trouble want
them removed. I think this will be very difficult to win, you only
have to look at countries like China that declare all mapping without
a license illegal, and with the kind of filtering China applies to the
internet to see this.