[OSGeo-Discuss] Geodata & Education

[Krishan Sharma]

We do almost at 15-20% cost of US prices, please forward a smaple map to
give you demo pilot.

On 3/24/06, Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/23/06, M.Blackmore <mblackmore at oxlug.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 19:14 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> >
> > > Given the number of interested people, I hope that we manage to
> generate/collect
> > > in the near future one or many interesting datasets along with
> documentation
> > > which can be used for teaching.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, how much would it cost to get maps for a local
> > area digitised in the 3rd world? Say a collective whip around of
> > organisations who would benefit from free maps. I've absolutely no idea
> > of how many person hours it would take to digitise the area of, say, a
> > UK 1:25,000 map area.
>
> The problem are not the costs, but digitizing is usually illegal
> unless the paper map isn't published under a free license or
> in public domain.
> However, we could try to approach e.g. NGOs to release their digitized
> data
> created by NGOs under a free data license.
>
> Markus
>
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