[OSM-talk] Deletions in Korea

[Max]

Sure, Naver and Daum Maps are heavily censored in Korea. A Korean
cartography professor told me that up to 20% of South Korean territory
is censored. I personally think it is more around 10%.

As a site hosted in Great Britain, I suppose that South Korea has no
jurisdiction over OpenStreetMap.

Not a lawyer, but for someone like you, who is living in South Korea it
is likely to be illegal to map censored things on OpenStreetMap. However
I don't see what would refrain someone who is not in South Korea to do so.

By the way, wikipedia is writing about the location too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Service_%28South_Korea%29

You can also get a list of South Korean nuclear power plants with
coordinates on wikipedia. You won't find them on korean maps. Just like
most airports in SK.



On 2015년 06월 30일 15:14, Hong, Yongmin wrote:
> I suppose that the NIS HQ is removed as local law stating NIS HQ is
> classified as 'somewhat security and shouldn't be public' zone [1] and
> is excluded from local maps such as Naver Map, Daum Map, etc etc. IIRC
> local law enforces local map publishers from posting the location but
> that's not our case.
> 
> [1] I don't remember the exact name... :p
> 
> 
> 2015. 6. 30. 오전 8:26에 "Andrew Errington" <erringtona at gmail.com
> <mailto:erringtona at gmail.com>>님이 작성:
> 
>     I agree.  Certainly 32029119 should be reverted.
> 
>     I contacted the user, but I didn't get a response.  Also, I see that
>     someone else has queried the NIS building edit, but didn't get a
>     response.
> 
>     Andrew
> 
>     On 30 June 2015 at 01:16, Max <abonnements at revolwear.com
>     <mailto:abonnements at revolwear.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> the user jbeank did some strange edits.
> 
> he deleted the National Intelligence Service HQ south of Seoul,
> a kind
> of South Korean CIA.
> http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=32029119
> 
> So I looked at some other edits of that user:
> 
> He edited some details along the DMZ, and added a mosque in Daejon
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/32003914
> 
> And the border between Turkey and Syria:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/31958075#map=16/36.7058/38.9604
> 
> Which is notable because of
> http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Feb-24/288559-missing-korean-teen-at-isis-training-camp.ashx
> 
> I can't quite understand the motivations and connections between the
> edits, but some of this should probably be reverted.
> 
> m.
> 
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