Hey everyone, Ralph - thanks for bringing this here. A few of us have started a campaign and collecting responses to the ministry to reduce the scope of this bill. You can follow the conversations on http://savethemap.in/
The bill in it's current state is very unlikely to get approved. Will keep you posted. Cheers, Sajjad (https://twitter.com/geohacker) On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Carissa Brittain <[email protected]> wrote: > The article in Geospatial World > (http://geospatialworld.net/Professional/ViewBlog.aspx?id=477) has a link to > the May 5 draft of the bill > (http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Draft-NGP-Ver%201%20ammended_05May2016.pdf) > but it doesn't seem to be complete. > > Techdirt's article > (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160509/09563834390/indias-proposed-geospatial-information-regulation-bill-would-shut-down-most-map-based-services-there.shtml) > seems to have a more complete version: > http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/GeospatialBill_05052016_eve.pdf > > 'Carissa Brittain > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Ralph Aytoun <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> An item for discussion. >> This particular scenario existed when I was working for Philip’s and we >> had to send to India for prior approval, an exact copy of any map of India >> that we would include in any of our atlases. It appears that India is going >> to roll this out further. >> >> Is this something HOT will have to get prior permission for in the event >> of a natural disaster? It certainly appears that way. >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36276754 >> >> Regards >> >> Ralph Aytoun >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
