[ILUG] GPS Software and maps.

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:39:46AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brian Foster thought:
>   Stephen Shirley writes:
>   | what are the republishing conditions [ for OSi maps/CDs/data ]?
>   | e.g. presumably it would be very expensive to republish the data
>   | a la maps.google.com.
> 
>  various legal stuff on the OSi (Ordnance Survey
>  Ireland) website indicates a (yearly?) license
>  is need to republish.  a relevant page may be:

When I contacted OSi for a fine resolution elevation map for the whole
country, they wanted (IIRC) EUR100,000 per annum just to _use_ the map.
This was when our parent department already had these maps on a lease
agreement that _specifically_ excluded us from using them. 
Republication was going to be really expensive...  Needless to say, we
went elsewhere.  Specifically to Mapflow who were able to supply a Space
Shuttle generated elevation map for _purchase_ at a reasonable price.

I shudder to think what the likes of Myhome.ie are paying for the
privilege of republishing the street maps...

Conor
-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at cod.homelinux.org>
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/G/S/O d+(-) s:+ a+ C++(+) UL++++ US++ P>++ L+++>++++ E--- W++ !N
PS+ PE Y+ PGP? tv(-) b+++(+) G e+++(*) h-- r+++ z++++ 
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------