[OSGeo Africa] City of Johannesburg datasets

[Peter Newmarch]

Perhaps land surveyors should implement their royalties rights on diagrams and general plans and make municipalities pay for such ( along with addresses and other resulting products) and then provide it free to everybody else by license agreements. - COJ then might change their current tune to avoid such.

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> On Feb 14, 2018, at 5:19 PM, Sindile Bidla <sindile.bidla at geoilocate.co.za> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have had an issue with COJ wanting to charge me for their data, I did the following:
> 
> 1. I pointed out the relevant sections in the Base Data Set Custodianship Policy and Pricing Of Spatial Information Products and Services.
> 
> 2. I wrote to Ms Marcel Hatting raising my concerns in this regard.
> 
> Ms Marcel Hatting was able to intervene and I did not pay for the data.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sindile XJ Bidla
> 
> Geoilocate
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> ---- On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:27:38 +0200 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote ----
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
> On 14 Feb 2018, at 16:14, 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/
> 
> 
> Took the words right out of my mouth! Very dodgy ….
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Grant
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