We do almost at 15-20% cost of US prices, please forward a smaple map to give you demo pilot.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Markus Neteler</b> <<a href="mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com">neteler.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 3/23/06, M.Blackmore <<a href="mailto:mblackmore@oxlug.org">mblackmore@oxlug.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 19:14 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
<br>><br>> > Given the number of interested people, I hope that we manage to generate/collect<br>> > in the near future one or many interesting datasets along with documentation<br>> > which can be used for teaching.
<br>><br>> Just out of curiosity, how much would it cost to get maps for a local<br>> area digitised in the 3rd world? Say a collective whip around of<br>> organisations who would benefit from free maps. I've absolutely no idea
<br>> of how many person hours it would take to digitise the area of, say, a<br>> UK 1:25,000 map area.<br><br>The problem are not the costs, but digitizing is usually illegal<br>unless the paper map isn't published under a free license or
<br>in public domain.<br>However, we could try to approach e.g. NGOs to release their digitized data<br>created by NGOs under a free data license.<br><br>Markus<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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