[Talk-GB] Fwd: [CARTO-SoC] Priced out...

[Richard Fairhurst]

Interesting comment on the CARTO-SoC list.

Richard

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     Date: Tue,  4 Dec 2007 13:25:43 GMT
     From: Gary Haley <mapset at blueyonder.co.uk>
Reply-To: carto-soc at sheffield.ac.uk
  Subject: [CARTO-SoC] Priced out...
       To: Multiple recipients of list CARTO-SOC <carto-soc at sheffield.ac.uk>

I have recently had occasion to ask the Ordnance
Survey for a quote to reproduce part of four
10x10km 1:25000 tiles at 50% (ie 1:50000) across
an A3 spread which represents less that one
quarter of the total page area of a booklet. The
print run is 37000 copies.

My print costs are £3500, my distribution costs
are £1400. The quote from OS for the use of this
(raster) data for this product is £7452, yes more
than 50% higher than my print and distribution
costs combined!

There doesn't seem to be any way of getting a
better quote from OS so needless to say we won't
be using any map products on this occasion.

This episode has made me wonder how many other
products are being produced in the UK each year
without maps where the use of a map would add
considerably to the readability of the product.

I reckon this is a missed opportunity at best and
at worst contributes to the demise of print-based
cartography in the UK.

Any comments?



Gary Haley
mapset at blueyonder.co.uk



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