[OSM-talk] Price of non-free geodata

[Nic Roets]

If you multiply the cost of a private vector license for one of these
countries by the number of Sat-Nav devices sold in that country, you may
well end up with a number larger than the cost to remap the whole country.
This paradox can then be explained by the "market segmentation" and retail
vs wholesale price effects.

In South Africa we have the reverse : A commercial vector data license costs
$0. So the value of OSM lies in having no restrictions on distribution and
having footways, private roads and PoIs.

So digging through the Tele Atlas or Navteq financials is a much better
approach. For example market cap divided by kms mapped.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

>
> 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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