[Geodata] What is the value of free data?
Pat Cappelaere
pat at cappelaere.com
Fri Sep 11 10:57:10 EDT 2009
It is great to make geodata free. However, we could get more of it if
we could quantify the value of that data.
We need to justify the business case.
Interestingly, for opensource software projects, you can compute the
potential cost of developing that software.
This is an approximation of the value of that code [but not the value
that is enabled by the code]
So I am looking for a similar and still imperfect metric.
Any suggestion?
Cost of similar commercial imagery?
Economic value of imaged area?
Potential damage assessment (disaster)?
Scientific value of imagery?
How do we estimate this?
Thanks,
Pat.
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