[Portugal] When Mapping Gets You Arrested

[Victor Ferreira]

Agora tentem fazer isso a menos de 300 metros da embaixada Israelita!! :-)
Eu tentei. Por acaso até foi pior do que um GPS, estava a dazer uma
investigação em que tinha de parar na rua a contar todas as pessoas
que passavam e a registar horas.
Quando sem reparar fiz isso na esquina em frente dos Israelitas, tive
chatices... Fui identificado por umas três vezes, por tipos em óculos
escuros e gravata, e eventualmente acabei interpelado pela polícia e
aconselhado a ir para outra rua.
Vá lá que o meu cartão da Universidade me ajudou a provar que estava
em "investigação" senão tinha ido parar à esqudra concerteza.
Por isso conselho de amigo, não anotam coisas em papelinhos à frente
de embaixadas "complicadas".
Victor

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM, termal12 <termal12  gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.jonathancrowe.net/2011/08/when-mapping-gets-you-arrested.php
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> When Mapping Gets You Arrested
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> via Jonathan Crowe: Recent Map Posts by Jonathan Crowe on 8/19/11
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> Wired UK reports on how an OpenStreetMap contributor got arrested in Reading
> after "a paranoid guy called the police." (Here's the contributor's own
> take.)
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> On-the-ground surveying with a GPS is a great way to contribute to
> OpenStreetMap, but it's not hard to see how it might be construed as
> suspicious activity. The problem isn't actually the GPS, which is
> inconspicuous enough unless you're staring at it every five seconds, it's
> the note-taking that goes along with it. Even here in Shawville, when we
> were surveying a couple of residential streets, one of Jennifer's co-workers
> spotted us and later asked us what the hell we had been doing. We were
> writing down house numbers to add to the map -- but stopping every few
> metres to write down the house number at each corner does look a bit odd. So
> does taking a photo of every street sign (to confirm road names
> independently of third-party mapping data). It helps to be as discreet and
> non-creepy as possible.
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> Fortunately, it's a small town and we're known, so we haven't run into any
> serious trouble yet. If asked, I usually explain that I'm mapping the town
> for a website called OpenStreetMap, which is like Wikipedia for maps:
> everybody runs around with a GPS to create a map of the world. (At that
> point their eyes usually glaze over.)
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