Nicolas Pettiaux schreef: > > Exact, but one of the issue, is that in Belgium for example, most of > the maps and datas are collected by the National Geographic Institute > (a former miltary department, now civil but still heavily connected to > the army) and they are paid by our taxes money. They charge for their > data, and sell the to private people as well as companies who > sometimes resell them. > > Why pay multiple times for these data of IGN ? In the US for example, > data collected with public money become public. > > THe proble is the same in many European countries as in Belgium > >
Thats why I say: lets privatise the IGN/NGI, they 'll learn something if they don't share their data. I have posted an article about the Bus company DeLijn.be/TEC that should make their data public, so that hobbyists could walk with their GPS over the Kemmelberg/Profondeville and would be able to say: "hey, it's only 30 minutes walking to the next bus stop, let's have a beer at the Camp site near the RTBF antenna, this camp site is owned by some Dutch people ..." Same for the NMBS, but they do not provide beer either ;-) Marc -- -- Shortwave transmissions in English, Francais, Nederlands, Deutsch, Suid-Afrikaans, Chinese, Dansk, Urdu, Cantonese, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, ... http://shortwave.blogsite.org/ Updated every month or so ... -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
