sark,
yes, it does ruin their value proposition.
i am sure they will make every attempt to negotiate a new feed soon.
otherwise .. they are pretty much cooked.
problem is .. that they won't be able to go Google unless they negotiate their own feed. in that case, we'd have their in-house parking program using a Google feed, perhaps a program that uses Yahoo, and Skenzo. And creating an in-house parking program is not usually an overnight project.
vrc