Please follow the hackpad here for more information and participate in the discussion : https://datameet.hackpad.com/The-Geospatial-Information-Regulation-Bill-2016... CIS is working aggressively on this issue.
2016-05-10 12:56 GMT+05:30 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com:
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 lshyamal@gmail.com 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
Internet
Archive) but there are some news reports on it.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/544410/geospatial-info-sans-approval-may...
"No person shall acquire geospatial imagery or data including value
addition
of any part of India either through any space or aerial platforms such as satellite, aircraft, airships, balloons, unmanned aerial vehicles or terrestrial vehicles, or any other means whatsoever without general or special permission of the Security Vetting Authority.”
best wishes Shyamal
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-- Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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