This is terrible. From the article > The Ministry of Defence is about to declare mapping illegal in Pakistan. The > federal cabinet, Pakistan’s foremost civilian authority, is willingly giving > up a civic task to agencies that report to Pakistan’s Armed Forces. > > The proposed Land Surveying and Mapping Bill 2012 will entrust all mapping > responsibilities in Pakistan to the Survey of Pakistan (SoP), which > supposedly reports to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), but effectively takes > its orders and cues from the General Head Quarters. Consider that the > Surveyor General of Pakistan is often a serving or retired General, who leads > the organisation that is not open to scrutiny by the civilian authorities. > > The proposed Bill will require all government or private agencies involved in > surveying and mapping to register themselves with the SoP. Failing to do so > will result in one-year imprisonment and a fine of up to one million rupees.
http://dawn.com/2012/11/21/pakistanis-lost-without-maps/ -- Puneet Kishor Science and Data Policy at Creative Commons _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
