On Tuesday 16 Dec 2014 9:04:12 AM H. S. Sudhira wrote: > I am sure most of you are aware and keeping track of this. Survey of India > / DST takes a step on digital maps representing the country's boundary, > files a complaint against Google! It will be interesting to keep a tab on > this. More troubles to Google, as this comes after the Mapathon event! > > Here is the official word on this from their Facebook post > <https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=894090357277177&id=277739 > 112245641&fref=nf> > > It is observed that M/s Google Map is wrongly depicting external boundaries > of India on maps hosted by them on different domains, namely > http://www.google.cn/maps/@25.7377892,88.726647,4z and > https://www.google.com/maps/@25.1367452,80.1073483,4z , which are not > equivalent to Government of India authentication. > The correct official boundaries of India has been shown at > http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/fil.../Correct_India_Map_1.pdf > <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveyofindia.gov.in%2Ffiles > %2FCorrect_India_Map_1.pdf&h=WAQGS5vQh&enc=AZNiarC7YaARtZIxN5apmQDyhCrncT0hQ > 421xHVoYOMJyElRbJHsUeVdEovbwRg31QZYnJ6Nlxdp-UCqmSLCX3ld8SB53waywyaF2gItaG0Td > ekJc3MYlcWOAa79FSP9FFg_KjEMmyIev-1WTmU3DOW9nPxYwx-2JM6D7QOUkFDVxw> > > In this regard, on the instructions of Department of Science & Technology, > Survey of India has officially filled a FIR with SHO, PS Dalanwala, > Dehradun on 12-12-2014 at 18:00 hrs requesting them to take appropriate > legal action against M/s Google Maps for displaying incorrect map of India.
osm may also get such a notice if we get popular. Let us take the need to create a separate server for osm.in asap. -- GN _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
