Ian,
You can get at the issue sideways. There were at least two studies done
in Canada that showed the value of making government geospatial data
more open, that is, less subject to Crown Copyright laws. The argument
was that restricted access to data caused an economic loss. In 2001 KPMG
reported that Canada's policy had resulted in an economic loss of
$2.6bCN (many of these studies were done in the early 2000's). I'm
pretty sure there were similar studies done in the UK and in Australia,
all subject to Crown Copyright.
Renee
On 11-05-30 3:40 PM, Eric Wolf wrote:
Peter Batty used to give a presentation where this was the central
concept - that OS MasterMap provides a common mapping platform for
organizations that need a very large scale/high resolution dataset,
like utilities. In the US, the USGS data is too coarse or too old so
every local utility builds their own GIS.
I don't know if there was anything formal behind his presentation.
You'll have to ask him. Other than that, I don't know of any specific
study comparing TIGER (or The National Map) to OS.
-Eric
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ian White <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's absolutely not my question. This has nothing to do with
budget cutting, data.gov <http://data.gov> or any other
initiative. I'm looking for a study/analysis comparing TIGER to OS
and value creation
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From: Miten Sampat <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:24:46 -0500
To: IHW <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] value in government open data?
I believe most of those programs got cut during the recent budget
reductions for .gov data
-best,
Miten
On May 30, 2011, at 12:04 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?
Thx
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