at bottom :- On 06/05/2016, Praachi Misra <[email protected]> wrote: > The law as it reads currently, is kafkaesque,. there are 4 different bodies > > being created, and nobody actually trying to subvert national security will > > contemplate seeking a licence. A map that can actually be utilised (not > scanned copy of pdf) should solve the problem of boundaries. > > We can only wonder..... why? > > Praachi >
Hi all, I read the draft bill and have the same concerns as everybody else. Before I start further, the hackpad shared cannot be read anonymously, could something be done about it. https://datameet.hackpad.com/Geospatial-Bill-2016-zJwgcQaIvBq I just don't want to join another platform just to read. Quite simply, it seems it's being done so that GOI and ISRO's Bhuvan have monopoly over all GIS, killing effectively all private as well as community-based entities and interventions or only give licenses to big businesses like Google and other such big private providers, (Here maps come to mind) as well as those who are into mapping for Oil and Gas Industry among others. I *think* this is in line with the successful completion of IRSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) due to putting IRSS-1G into orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRNSS-1G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Satellite_System Overall, this is going to make us poorer as citizens as this knowledge would be curtailed. This also seems to have implications for disaster management, for e.g. the forest fires which happened in Uttarakhand. Government would be able to manipulate all and any data on the maps and we wouldn't know at all. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
