Incredible! it just might be a ploy to justify more government spendings :)<br><br>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 :)<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Pucha! I almost fell-off my chair!<br>
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"With each map sheet costing P500,000, creating a GIS base map will<br>
cost P6.5 billion."<br>
<br>
I know data creation is expensive, but is it really that much (500K<br>
per mapsheet)?<br>
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Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM<br>
Subject: Planning ahead of disasters with GIS<br>
To: maning sambale <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Sagutin natin na may available ng mga opensource tools for this and<br>
what we need are more support from the government to complete base<br>
maps ng phil. Much cheaper din kung open source gagamitin.<br>
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<a href="http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091012-229676/Planning-ahead-of-disasters-with-GIS" target="_blank">http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091012-229676/Planning-ahead-of-disasters-with-GIS</a><br>
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What you think?<br>
<br>
Rick<br>
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cheers,<br>
maning<br>
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