"Andreas Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Geodata in Europe is often very expensive to use. Geodata aquisition is > usually > government sponsored and income throgh sellling geodata covers usually > only up to > 10-20% of the expenses.
Yep, please sign the petition, also help out with http://openstreetmap.org/ as an available alternative to buying the data will do a lot to force the hand of the mapping agencies. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/9/9f/KT13_20060504.png Is a PNG rendering of an SVG document produced from the above free data, unfortunately not all the areas are as covered as Etienne has managed in Weybridge, but the Isle of Wight should soon be well covered after last weekends Mapping workshop, and manchester after this weekends Mapchester http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapchester Jim. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
