Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out (was: Mapping Informal Areas, Khayelitsha, Cape Town)

2009-03-19 Thread brendan barrett
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

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out (was: Mapping Informal Areas, Khayelitsha, Cape Town)

2009-03-19 Thread Dave Coventry
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

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out (was: Mapping Informal Areas, Khayelitsha, Cape Town)

2009-03-19 Thread 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,

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] City of Cape Town Selling Out (was: Mapping Informal Areas, Khayelitsha, Cape Town)

2009-03-18 Thread Grant Slater
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