[OSM-talk] Mapchester - continuation of work

Dan Karran dan at karran.net
Wed Jun 7 12:59:16 BST 2006


On 6/7/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> They (Futursonic) have purchased a Garmin GPSMap 60 CSx to gather additional
> data in the centre of Manchester so it will be interesting to hear from them
> how well it works in the areas that the older Garmin units had problem with
> during the Mapchester weekend.

It would be interesting to see a rough comparison of the amount it
costs for an organisation to go out and map an area with their own
equipment, contributing it to OSM, compared to the cost of licensing
OS data for the same area. Does anyone have any sort of figures like
that available?


Cheers,
Dan

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