Sunil / Nirmita, could you please advise on the legal aspects of this asap?
How does this tie in with other citizen sharing egovernance initiatives like data.gov.in ? Is this purely something to deal with the various 'versions' of the map of India as far as Sino-Indian and Indo-Pak boundaries go? Or does it permeate into the datameet space too? On May 6, 2016 2:14 PM, "Dilip Damle" <[email protected]> wrote: > May be it caters to a different Audience > > > > https://www.facebook.com/IndiaAgainstBazaruMedia/photos/a.1597608200495492.1073741829.1588778484711797/1720074534915524/?type=3&theater > > On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 1:52:10 PM UTC+5:30, Shirish Agarwal wrote: >> >> 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. > -- 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.
