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1. Understanding the value of geographic information in turbulent times Steven Feldman

3. Changing environment Economic crisis demands better RoI Shift from producer centric to customer responsive organisation Changing perceptions of value

5. Budgets under `pressure

6. Return on Investment

8. Cost does not equal value Because geodata is expensive to produce does not mean that it is valuable to customers Customers determine value with their choices

9. Private Sector doesn’t necessarily do it any better

10. “Creating, maintaining and delivering a comprehensive, high quality map database is a multi-step, labor-intensive process. We currently employ over 270 employees in our centralized production facility and a global workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32 countries” Financials (2007) Revenue $853m (~€604m) Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)

14. At street level at the point of consumption data is

15. The old adage Data equals 75-90% of the cost of a solution Not necessarily Driven by data monopolies and rigid pricing that did not reflect the different value that the same data brought to different applications

16. Check before you dig

17. We areNational Mapping Agencies

18. Street maps are becoming commodities

20. Large scale mapping

21. Precision

23. Cairo – June 2008

24. Cairo – June 2009

26. Focus

27. Multi-purpose

28. Best of breed

30. Large scale mapping

31. Precision

34. Thank You Steven Feldman KnowWhere e: shfeldman@gmail.com w: http://GIScussions.blogspot.com t: http://twitter.com/stevenfeldman