Agora tentem fazer isso a menos de 300 metros da embaixada Israelita!! :-) Eu tentei. Por acaso até foi pior do que um GPS, estava a dazer uma investigação em que tinha de parar na rua a contar todas as pessoas que passavam e a registar horas. Quando sem reparar fiz isso na esquina em frente dos Israelitas, tive chatices... Fui identificado por umas três vezes, por tipos em óculos escuros e gravata, e eventualmente acabei interpelado pela polícia e aconselhado a ir para outra rua. Vá lá que o meu cartão da Universidade me ajudou a provar que estava em "investigação" senão tinha ido parar à esqudra concerteza. Por isso conselho de amigo, não anotam coisas em papelinhos à frente de embaixadas "complicadas". Victor
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM, termal12 <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.jonathancrowe.net/2011/08/when-mapping-gets-you-arrested.php > > > > > Sent to you by termal12 via Google Reader: > > > > > When Mapping Gets You Arrested > > via Jonathan Crowe: Recent Map Posts by Jonathan Crowe on 8/19/11 > > Wired UK reports on how an OpenStreetMap contributor got arrested in Reading > after "a paranoid guy called the police." (Here's the contributor's own > take.) > > On-the-ground surveying with a GPS is a great way to contribute to > OpenStreetMap, but it's not hard to see how it might be construed as > suspicious activity. The problem isn't actually the GPS, which is > inconspicuous enough unless you're staring at it every five seconds, it's > the note-taking that goes along with it. Even here in Shawville, when we > were surveying a couple of residential streets, one of Jennifer's co-workers > spotted us and later asked us what the hell we had been doing. We were > writing down house numbers to add to the map -- but stopping every few > metres to write down the house number at each corner does look a bit odd. So > does taking a photo of every street sign (to confirm road names > independently of third-party mapping data). It helps to be as discreet and > non-creepy as possible. > > Fortunately, it's a small town and we're known, so we haven't run into any > serious trouble yet. If asked, I usually explain that I'm mapping the town > for a website called OpenStreetMap, which is like Wikipedia for maps: > everybody runs around with a GPS to create a map of the world. (At that > point their eyes usually glaze over.) > > > > > Things you can do from here: > > Subscribe to Jonathan Crowe: Recent Map Posts using Google Reader > Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite > sites > > > > _______________________________________________ > Portugal mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/portugal > > _______________________________________________ Portugal mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/portugal
