Frederik It will be very difficult to get a sensible/usable metric for this.
A very brief look on web produced following for 3 data UK providers: Ordnance Survey no meaningfull info found http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/newcustomer/right4u.html CollinsBartholomew no meaningfull info found http://www.bartholomewmaps.com/data.asp?pid=100 XYZmaps some interpretable data http://www.xyzmaps.com/price.htm#NEXTMap Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Learning and Quality Enhancement Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm Sent: 18 November 2008 14:33 To: Talk Openstreetmap Subject: [OSM-talk] Price of non-free geodata Hi, whenever I talk about OSM I tell people how free data encourages creativity and makes possible a whole bunch of things that weren't possible before, how OSM can be used to make cool applications even if you're on a very small budget and so on. Fortunately my bluff hasn't been called yet but to be honest, I have no idea about the cost of non-free Geodata. I have some isolated figures - I remember someone on this list being quoted a ridiculous sum by the OS, and indeed ridiculous quotes are quite common. On the other hand I once bought a license to display the whole of NW Scotland at something like our zoom level 11 (raster image) on my web site from Bartholomew (through streetmap.co.uk) for 50 GBP which looked quite cheap to me. But what are the tariffs being paid every day for acceptable vector data? How many Euros per kilometre of road per year, or whatever the quantity of measurement is? I think I could make an even better impact on listeners if I were able to put a price tag to our data and say something like "in the last three months alone, mappers have collected data that would set you back so and so many hundred thousand Euros if you were to acquire it commercially" or so, but I wouldn't want to use some fantastic number where everbody then laughs and says "yeah, that's what it is before negotiation, and after that it's 10% of the sum" or so. Bye Frederi -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
