According to the Malaysian National Mapping Department website, in order to obtain digital geodata, you need an annual license from them at RM200 (€45) for members of the public. The license is renewable yearly. Then you need to purchase the specific geodata. 1:50000 scale topographic maps of Peninsular Malaysia = RM960 (€210) 1:3000 - 12500 Town Map in Peninsular Malaysia = RM50 (€11) There are a lot more products on offer from that website: http://www.jupem.gov.my/Main.aspx?page=MappingProducts
I would say the prices quite expensive, considering the average wage is just around RM3000/month. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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