On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, David Earl wrote: > On 14/01/2010 18:27, Dave F. wrote: >> Andy, The taxpayers have already paid for it, many times over. I resent >> having to pay £7.50 for a map I've already financed to construct. >> As I've paid for it, I think it should be given to me free of charge. > > For a paper map, I think not. You've helped pay for the data collection > and technology, but not for the printing and paper etc for your > particular map. As the printing is to a particularly high standard, and > in 6 colour, I'm sure that is a very substantial part of the cost (and > of course, probably half the selling price is from the retailer's markup > anyway).
Which gets to andy's point that anyone should be able to print them and just pay OS for the data, which is a nice idea but not the one being consulted on AFAIK. Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
