[Portugal] When Mapping Gets You Arrested

[Andre Mano]

Sim, até porque o Governo está neste momento em plena fase Big Brother -
corta-se em tudo menos no orçamento de vigilância e repressão. Acho que
neste momento qualquer edifício ministerial é potencialmente mais
"complicado" que a maioria das embaixadas.

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Victor Ferreira <
victor.mota.ferreira at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.jonathancrowe.net/2011/08/when-mapping-gets-you-arrested.php
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent to you by termal12 via Google Reader:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > When Mapping Gets You Arrested
> >
> > via Jonathan Crowe: Recent Map Posts by Jonathan Crowe on 8/19/11
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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André Mano
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