There are yet another side to all this

Posted Oct 24, 2008 11:49 UTC (Fri) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
In reply to: There are yet another side to all this by flewellyn
Parent article: OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

There was a conviction of Faheem Khalid Lodhi in Australia in 2003 for "possessing things connected with terrorist acts". The "thing" was a map of an Australian state's electricity grid. See Regina v Lodhi [2006] NSWSC 691.

Lodhi's map was not a street map, but major transmission links and substations could well appear in OpenStreetMap as they are particularly good reference points in rural areas.

There are yet another side to all this

Posted Oct 24, 2008 14:20 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Yes, but given the state of race relations in Australia (not much better than the US), I imagine his real crime was being Muslim.