To Charge or Not to Charge
Lemmer, Netherlands: 29 July 2010
The August 2010 Volume 24 Number 8 edition of GIM International includes an article titled: To Charge or Not to Charge: A Framework for Proper Funding by Pepijn van Oort and Arnold Bregt, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
The article abstract states:
“Should users pay for geo-data produced by government and institutions? This question has fostered a long and heated debate, often spiced by contributions fully in favour or fully opposed to free access. Based on an extensive review of the literature, and acknowledging that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the authors developed a framework for selecting proper funding models. Free access is the predominant model, but in some cases charging is both viable and justifiable.”
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