[OSGeo Africa] City of Johannesburg datasets

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On 14 Feb 2018 16:15, "Grant Slater" <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:

> On 14 February 2018 at 08:08, Hugo Paul <hugo at mhpgeo.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > I’ve bought data from the COJ previously
> >
>
> I find it extremely distasteful that CoJ charge mega $$$ for the data
> and restricts its use with contacts.
>
> The data has already been paid for its primary purpose (the operating
> of the municipality) by tax payers.
>
> Even the basic address point data is locked away, although they
> offered to bundle it if I bought another dataset.
>
> I was quoted an insane cost for aerial imagery.
>
> The extreme financial & legal barriers to entry kills innovation and
> startups.
>
> City of Cape Town on the other hand was mostly easy to work with...
> I made: https://coct.aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
>
> NGI aerial I created:
> http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
> Others have created interesting things using NGI datasets:
> https://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/twk/
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
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