On May 30, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Ian White wrote: > I remember reading some kind of comparison of OS to Census/TIGER a few years > ago from the perspective of value added activities—it highlighted the > business value/investment added on to base map data and contrasted the then > US experience with the UK charging for OS base data. Obviously the OS case > isn't quite as relevant today, but wondering if anybody can remember seeing > this post/study? >
Not specifically Ordnance Survey vs. US Census/TIGER, but there was a study on general public sector information. It was conducted by a consulting firm called PIRA, so it was not an academic study. The finding was that the US approach of releasing raw data for free and letting the market create value resulted in an order of magnitude more economic value created vs. the European approach (I believe it was European, not UK, as the counter to the US) to manicuring the data and then releasing finished version of it at a high acquisition cost. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.org Research http://carbonmodel.org Science Fellow http://creativecommons.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
