Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
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> However, I think I would have a hard time convincing my grandmother
> why she should be paying for GIS data that you are going to use.
She has (and we have) already paid for it. Most GIS activity in
Australia is in the government sector. I'd say that most of the
non-government people that are doing it create their own data; farms,
mines, etc i.e they don't care what their "real" world co-ordinates are,
just so long as they apply a consistent map to the their site.
The point that was being made was by having access to "free" data, US
companies have developed far more GIS products than Australian
companies. They probably have ten to one GIS companies and our biggest
(?) keeps going broke.
If you want to develop a Linux based GIS application, you are crippled
by having to buy or recapture real world data.
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