Grant
I don't have this on any authority, other than a brief 2 minute
conversation with one of the guys in the department while I was there.
There could be broken telephone, and I don't know to what extent this
is the case.
In any case, if it makes it easier / cheaper / better for them to
I dunno.
It's probably a point of precedent.
At the moment you can get 1 in 50 thou shapefiles of the whole of
South Africa for a couple of hundred bucks.
If this were to be privatised, I'm sure that the price would go up
hundredfold, probably thousandfold.
2009/3/19 brendan barrett
Yeah, but without any details, I don't want to ring any alarm bells or
jump to any conclusions about anything. I perhaps spoke with a lack of
concrete information. That said, it might be worth investigating.
In the mean time however, judging by the success of the Cape Town and
Durban imports,
Yeah that makes sense.
All the more reason for us to get what is in the public domain as soon
as we can. I wonder if we can set up a list of municipalities
contacted, and the results (you have a good start). Then we can get
hold of the remaining ones. I'm going to see what I can do up the west
Brendan,
I've half attempted contacting a few municipalities, without much success...
Knysna, Stellenbosch, Hermanus seems to have outsourced their GIS
departments to a private company...
Emailed Joburg municipality and within minutes received an almost
threatening email from a private company
brendan barrett wrote:
There's no need to chat to them about feeding data back as they are
not going to maintain their data moving forward. They told me that
they are going to switch to using data from the local mapping company
(the same one Google Earth is getting its data from).
Truly
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