[OSM-talk] Mapchester - continuation of work

[Oliver White]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:59, Dan Karran wrote:
> 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?

It would be interesting to find out what cost (b) is -- I reckon someone 
should find out the price of buying OS vector map data for release as 
copyleft, just for the amusement value...

From what little I know of their licensing, you'd have to take the cost per 
square km, multiply that by the area you want (or 240000 for the UK), and 
multiply the result by the number of people in the world (permitted users), 
and by the number of computers on the internet (permitted terminals) to get a 
cost per year.

I know half the OS staff read this list, so you're welcome to correct me ;-)

OJW