Hi All, The government of India is trying to regulate the collection, publication, and distribution of geospatial information relating to India. Here is the proposed bill[1] open for comments and suggestions. Deadline for comments is 3rd June 2016.
Basically, any person/company/firm trying to do anything (either in India or anywhere) with geo data of India need to get a license. The meaning of geospatial information in this bill is so broad and covers a lot: > "Geospatial Information" means geospatial imagery or data acquired through > space or aerial platforms such as satellite, aircrafts, airships, balloons, > unmanned aerial vehicles including value addition; or graphical or digital > data depicting natural or man-made physical features, phenomenon or boundaries > of the earth or any information related thereto including surveys, charts, > maps, terrestrial photos referenced to a co-ordinate system and > having attributes I think this definitely affects MLS as a whole with respect data relating to India and people stumbling in India. At best, Mozilla and individual contributors need to get a license (at worst for each use). I've also posted this on Mozilla Advocacy Community[2]. A public awareness and response effort by name savethemap.in has been started. And, also the hashtag #savethemap I welcome all India Mozillians participate in the debate. [1] Draft bill posted for comments: http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/GeospatialBill_05052016_eve.pdf [2] https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org/t/rfc-the-geospatial-information-regulation-bill-2016/355?u=veeven Thanks, Veeven. _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list dev-geolocation@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
