… research on data provision via spatial data infrastructures, this article considers both the
direct and indirect costs of open data provision, framing four main areas of indirect costs: citizen …

… “added value” both economic and social [3,4]. The European report “Creating value through
open data” [5] … The geospatial sector was one of the early sectors to progress significantly in …

… Thus, the total societal value of the open data programme regarding geospatial information
is estimated to 0.47 billion € of which the production effect accounts for 0.34 billion € and the …

… The present research contributes to assessing the value of these geospatial open data.
We … the contribution of geospatial open data to the value of the expanding open data initiatives …

… locations with a high preference value, but at the same time, we would annotate all locations
within 600 m of road (but more than 500 m away) with a slightly smaller preference value. …

… This paper focuses on open source software and open data in the geospatial domain. What
… in companies providing value-added services for open source geospatial software. These …

… making create the geospatial data themselves rather than … at a very low monetary cost open
datasets become available and … mapping applications are based on open data in the future? …

… The advances in open data, free and open source software solutions and … to enrollment by
everyone with an Internet connection, with no costs incurred and with no formal education pre-…

… through open source software, and was complemented by open data from … for data sharing,
where the cost of distribution to the public has become marginal. The availability of open data …

… In Table 1, we provide recommendations that can substantially increase the value of the
data for users. Many of them are easy to implement, eg providing basic information through …