Crikey. Apparently, they were making a map for Nokia.
http://nationalnewsofindiadaily.blogspot.com/2008/12/two-detained-in-gujarat-after-survey.html No statements from that telecommunication giant, or much in the way of comment from the company they worked for (Biond Software). Tim On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Chilton <s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.uk> wrote: > And now post-Mumbai paranoia: > http://geocartablog.com/?p=900 > > > Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow > Manager of e-Learning Academic Development > Centre for Educational Technology > Middlesex University > phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 > email: ste...@mdx.ac.uk > http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp > > Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ > > SoC conference 2008: > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] > On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm > Sent: 14 December 2008 00:38 > To: Talk Openstreetmap > Subject: [OSM-talk] GPS banned in Egypt > > Hi, > > probably not news to most of you but until recently I had assumed > that only a few outlandish places like China and Saudi Arabia had banned > GPSes; now I read that Egypt - hitherto regarded by Y.T. as an at least > halfway civil place - has had a GPS ban in place for 5 years now: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/09/egypt-iphone-mobile-gps > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk