On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 11:06:40 PM UTC+5:30, Dilip Damle wrote: > HI, > > I was shocked to see this news today. > > http://www.businessinsider.in/PoK-and-Arunachal-as-disputed-territories/articleshow/52129850.cms > > > > > A part from the news > > "To add to this, the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill would soon be > brought to tables, and any person or institution acquiring and disseminating > any geospatial imagery or data of any part of India through space or aerial > platforms will be required to first seek permission and license from a > government authority." > > A so a large part of what we are doing here will become Illegal > > > > > > Rgards > Dilip Damle
Hi, Here are my observations: # I feel if this bill is passed in partial/modified or full, not at all good for small companies/startup that are working on open source map data/OSM or creating geospatial data in some form. as big companies (International mapping companies or utility/telecom companies) can easily set up a division to liaison with licensing authority on monthly basis or as per requirement. But for small companies this would not be possible. So in any form of licensing is problematic. # Another major point, In India most of the geospatial companies are service companies which are working for government agencies. So data ownership for such services would be with govt. agencies hence licensing policy is not applicable here and would not affect these companies. Most likely all research/educational institutions would not be included in licensing policy. So very small segment of industry is affected. To raise the voice there are very few people if we compare this bill with net neutrality bill. So tackling the problem is not very simple. We should put this issue that this bill is against "Digital India" and "Make in India" objective and I feel its truly against these. Regards, Gagan -- 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.
