Incredible! it just might be a ploy to justify more government spendings :)

I guess its up to us to really inform the government that OSM can really
help. Bigay na lang natin sa mga biktima ang cost savings :)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Pucha!  I almost fell-off my chair!
>
> "With each map sheet costing P500,000, creating a GIS base map will
> cost P6.5 billion."
>
> I know data creation is expensive, but is it really that much (500K
> per mapsheet)?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: r...@cp-union.com <r...@cp-union.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM
> Subject: Planning ahead of disasters with GIS
> To: maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>
>
>
> Sagutin natin na may available ng mga opensource tools for this and
> what we need are more support from the government to complete base
> maps ng phil. Much cheaper din kung open source gagamitin.
>
>
> http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091012-229676/Planning-ahead-of-disasters-with-GIS
>
> What you think?
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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> cheers,
> maning
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