[OSM-talk] Price of non-free geodata

[Keith Ng]

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 <frederik at remote.org> 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
>
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