Nighat Daad from the Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan just published this on Tech President:
http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/23188/pakistan-considering-bill-would-ban-independent-mapping-projects "If the bill passes in to law, the SoP will be the regulatory body controlling all mapping activities. Any other body wishing to create a map will have to apply for permission to do so — and can expect to have their activities and their outputs controlled as a result." On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I have created a quick blog post here that could go up on HOT. Kate, > Harry, Faisal and others: could this work? Obviously I don't have publishing > permissions on hot.osm.org so someone else would have to take this and run > the last mile with it. Please feel free to change as you see fit. My > intention was to highlight that this could have a real impact on citizen > mapping, HOT and OpenStreetMap and that this impact is starting to show now. > > https://gist.github.com/f657476887f3c84a32b1 > > PS: is anybody from HOT talking to OCHA or GFDRR? > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Faisal Chohan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree with the Alex suggestions. I Iike the idea to write about enefits of >> Openstreetmap data in disaster, transparency, business use, social issues ( >> that we are trying to do with sanitation in Rawalpindi), fighting corruption >> etc and then publish this in International and local media. We can also take >> good examples from other countries. I am happy to be part of this. >> >> We tried to enhance and use Openstreetmap for the first time in Pakistan, >> resisting the use of Google maps that are in much better shape in Pakistan >> than Openstreetmap, but do not provide any Open Data. Google may comply with >> Government of Pakistan laws and then can continue improving its maps. But >> for Opnstreetmap, every individual and group registering with GOP will not >> be possible. Hence, improving and use of the the openstreetmap will be very >> limited after this law and will discourage innovation in this domain. >> >> On the case of starting the Rawalpindi mapping, I had one personal bad >> experience turned into tragedy in the past and that is one of the personal >> reasons to be careful. But once i have my emotions in control, I am of the >> point of view to accelerate the project instead of stopping it. > > Alex Barth > http://twitter.com/lxbarth > tel (+1) 202 250 3633 > > > > Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
