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 terrible! I can think of nothing worse. The South African Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) of 2000 (http://www.acts.co.za/prom_of_access_to_info/) gives every citizen the right to information held by the State at the cost of distribution! (eg the price of a blank CD). Once the City of Cape Town licenses the data from Navteq / Teleatlas / BCX / Whoever this becomes NULL and void. Yes, GIS data is expensive to maintain, but it's absolutely vital for the functioning of a modern society and increasingly for online activities. Brendan: can you find out more information? Who, What, How... and details of how this will effect the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2000 from the City of Cape Town. / Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
