tailieunhanh - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Value, Pricing, Production, and Consumption - Chapter 3

Việc kinh doanh của GI: Không có những điều như một bữa ăn trưa miễn phí Sự tương tác hỗn loạn của giá cả, chi phí, và giá trị Hãy để chúng tôi nhà nước một cái gì đó ở đầu liên quan đến hai chương kế tiếp. Chúng tôi không chống lại các dữ liệu sẵn sàng tự do. Chúng tôi không chống lại một bữa ăn trưa miễn phí. Chúng tôi không giữ bất kỳ học thuyết cụ thể về việc liệu thông tin địa lý được thu thập trong khu vực công cần được tự do có sẵn, hoặc. | chapter three The business of GI No such thing as a free lunch The turbulent interplay of price cost and value Let us state something at the outset regarding the next two chapters. We are not against freely available data. We are not against a free lunch. We do not hold any particular doctrine about whether geographic information collected in the public sector should be freely available or available through a commercial cost or any cost level in between . cost of reproduction and dissemination etc. We believe in freedom of information but do not necessarily assume that the information always should or needs to be made available free of any charge. In all information collection and dissemination transactions there are costs and someone somewhere has to pay for them. Admittedly the emergence of information technologies and electronic networks has reduced some of the costs dramatically and as we see with ecommerce and the media user consumption patterns have changed as have users willingness to pay charges. This chapter then is a no-holds-barred exploration but please do not take it personally. What we hope to achieve is to set the scene for a reasoned objective debate within the widest range of geographic information GI stakeholders as possible whether in government business or civil society whether as owners users or custodians. The impact of the Internet on the pricing of information and communication has been substantial. We can now access information that previously was the expensive and protected domain of specialists for example looking online at flight tracking at major airports Floweb 2006 . Built on the emerging Google Maps and Google Earth Google 2006 innovations Floweb continues a process where the price of information and the quality and availability of information bring previously premium products and applications into the mass market. Computer flight simulators and in-car navigation are two examples of technologies that have experienced .