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 > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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