[OSM-talk] Unions seem to be complaining about potential joblosses if OS data is given away for free..

[Aun Johnsen]

Phill, thanks for the correction, when having 3 languages it is easy
to mix something

Sorry, didn't read the article, tough luck for the sales people that
somebody have been able to see through the scam and stopped them. If
their jobs goes there are probably other places thay can sell
stuff.....

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Barnett, Phillip
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> dusin -> dozen
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> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
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>>> Op 10-01-10 05:30, John Smith schreef:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4826436.New_threat_to_jobs_at_Southampton_s_Ordnance_Survey/
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>>> Sounds like the OS didn't have a R&D department nor a business
>>> department.
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>> To me it sounds like the reverse: The people who come up with the different
>> fee structures, licensing categories and enforcement thereof will be first
>> to go.
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>> The surveyors and cartographers will still have their jobs as roads continue
>> changing and GPS gets new applications like road pricing.
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> In my line of work we use a lot of surveyors, and our industry have
> been constantly growing, and even continued to grow through the
> economic crisis, though the area of focus have changed.
>
> I am talking about the oil industry. There are at least a dusin
> companies with large offshore survey departments, and even though the
> work might be outside the UK, they still recruite a lot of brittish
> surveyors. Almost everything in the oil industry is international. I
> have worked alongside surveyors from 3 different countries in one
> location (there where 4 surveyors in total ther), and none of them
> where performing work in their home country.
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> So complaining about potential job loss in one company shows either
> lack of knowledge, or lack of competence. It is the latter than we are
> better off without them.
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