Advice from the legal team is that we do need to fix this: I have had confirmation that while the Indian Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016 is still in draft form and has not been enacted, the publishing of maps and mapping activity is tightly controlled and there is an existing framework in place in India that covers this. In particular: (a) there are existing laws which provide that incorrectly* depicting the map is a criminal offence. *Any maps published should be in accordance with the maps published by the Survey of India.
(b) The Information Technology Act 2000 also empowers to the government to direct any agency of the Government or intermediary to block for access by the public or cause to be blocked for access by the public any information generated, transmitted, received, stored or hosted in any computer resource, if it deems it necessary, inter alia, for the defence of India or security of the State. We will therefore need to ensure that the maps are updated and correct. I've prepared a branch with what I think is the correct map, and I am waiting for a review from legal before proposing it. I could do with some help testing it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1697474 Title: Map of India is incorrect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libtimezonemap/+bug/1697474/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
