Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Veeven, thanks for your inline response :) Thank you for the links! :) Imho - There is no doubt that this will prevent innovation. Even a hassle or bureaucratic procedure completely discourages innovative thinking & thought. From GOI POV Make in India cannot be possible if information is so tight

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-10 Thread వీవెన్
2016-05-10 12:56 GMT+05:30 Ashwin Baindur : These need to be contested nationally if it prevents innovation. The bill may not prevent innovation but will surely discourage/delay. One need to get a license from an authority established under this act. > Will it shut OSM? > IANAL. But from read

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-10 Thread వీవెన్
2016-05-05 22:40 GMT+05:30 Shyamal Lakshminarayanan : > The draft of the bill has apparently already been taken off the Indian > government website (and is not found on the wayback machine of the Internet > Archive) but there are some news reports on it. > I am not sure where you are looking at.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-10 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Please follow the hackpad here for more information and participate in the discussion : https://datameet.hackpad.com/The-Geospatial-Information-Regulation-Bill-2016-zJwgcQaIvBq CIS is working aggressively on this issue. 2016-05-10 12:56 GMT+05:30 Ashwin Baindur : > These need to be contested nat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
These need to be contested nationally if it prevents innovation. Will it shut OSM? On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan wrote: > The draft of the bill has apparently already been taken off the Indian > government website (and is not found on the wayback machine of the Interne

[Wikimediaindia-l] Draft Geospatial information regulation bill 2016

2016-05-05 Thread Shyamal Lakshminarayanan
The draft of the bill has apparently already been taken off the Indian government website (and is not found on the wayback machine of the Internet Archive) but there are some news reports on it. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/544410/geospatial-info-sans-approval-may.html "No person shall acq