[euopendata] [open-government] licensing and pricing Geo Data

Thu Apr 28 09:40:36 UTC 2011

Hi Katleen!

2011/4/27 Katleen Janssen <Katleen.Janssen at law.kuleuven.be>

> There is a report stating that the Austrian mapping agency lowered its
> prices and then the use dramatically increased (by a couple of 1000 %) -
> unfortunately I can no longer find it online. Does anyone on the list have a
> copy of it? I'll have a look for the paper version and I'll scan it if I
> find it.
>

I think what you are referring to is geoimage.at [0] which started a free of
charge image server last year [1].

The terms of use for the free services are pretty restrictive, but they
allowed it to be used for OpenStreetMap which drove up there usage
significantly.

Maybe the free server also pushed more people to take a look at there other
services and buy some of there commercial offerings, but I don't know that
for sure.

cu andreas

[0] http://geoimage.at/geoimage/geodatendienste
[1] http://gis.lfrz.at/geoimageviewer/
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