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.<br>
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<font size="2">1:50000 scale topographic maps of Peninsular Malaysia = RM960 (€</font><font size="2">210)<br>1:3000 - 12500 Town Map in Peninsular Malaysia </font><font size="2">= RM50 (€</font><font size="2">11)</font> <br>
</h2>There are a lot more products on offer from that website:<br><a href="http://www.jupem.gov.my/Main.aspx?page=MappingProducts" target="_blank">http://www.jupem.gov.my/Main.aspx?page=MappingProducts</a><br><br>I would say the prices quite expensive, considering the average wage is just around RM3000/month.<br>
<br><br>On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
whenever I talk about OSM I tell people how free data encourages<br>
creativity and makes possible a whole bunch of things that weren't<br>
possible before, how OSM can be used to make cool applications even if<br>
you're on a very small budget and so on.<br>
<br>
Fortunately my bluff hasn't been called yet but to be honest, I have no<br>
idea about the cost of non-free Geodata. I have some isolated figures -<br>
I remember someone on this list being quoted a ridiculous sum by the OS,<br>
and indeed ridiculous quotes are quite common. On the other hand I once<br>
bought a license to display the whole of NW Scotland at something like<br>
our zoom level 11 (raster image) on my web site from Bartholomew<br>
(through <a href="http://streetmap.co.uk" target="_blank">streetmap.co.uk</a>) for 50 GBP which looked quite cheap to me.<br>
<br>
But what are the tariffs being paid every day for acceptable vector<br>
data? How many Euros per kilometre of road per year, or whatever the<br>
quantity of measurement is? I think I could make an even better impact<br>
on listeners if I were able to put a price tag to our data and say<br>
something like "in the last three months alone, mappers have collected<br>
data that would set you back so and so many hundred thousand Euros if<br>
you were to acquire it commercially" or so, but I wouldn't want to use<br>
some fantastic number where everbody then laughs and says "yeah, that's<br>
what it is before negotiation, and after that it's 10% of the sum" or so.<br>
<br>
Bye<br>
Frederi<br>
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