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Visit to town council for data

أُرسل بواسطه pavithrans فى 25 June 2010 باللغه English

I was told by my dad that there was a map somehwere attached in the muncipality ( town council) I went there and roamed all roads to find none of it . When I asked the clerk near the entrance door . He directed me to the town planning office .

I went inside to see lot of people waited. Patiently awaited my turn to find that I have to ask at another desk where the person incharge was not present . Again waited till she came . Since mine was a non important I let others ask and get their work done .

She told me that the original map is with some head office in hyderabad ( state capital) . I asked when this is a muncipality you are supposed to have one map . She told she has a copy . Then she asked me to apply at muncipal commissioner . After some thought she asked me which 'dept ' I was lol I told I am an independent person .

Then she suggested me to go to some 'singh' in some street who is an 'independent surveyor' . I went to him who is under an office named ' city builders'

Pavi: are you Mr Singh ?
Singh:Yes
pavi: Namaste
Singh: yes .
pavi: do you have the map of the town .
Singh: yes
pavi: can I have it ?
Singh: Yes ! do come in evening.
pavi: sure
Singh: ( after some pause) the map will cost
pavi: how much do you want ?
Singh: The map costed my Rs 5000 (108 $,87 euros)
pavi:(again) ok How much do you want for it ?
singh: I want the same amount .
pavi: cant I get for cheap ?
singh: no I bought it for 30,000(644$,522euros) and we 5 people are sharing it . The amount you pay will be shared among 5 .
pavi: cant you give it for cheap . I am like using it for non profit (didnt mention OSM as I didnt want to give more details)
singh: no . the map is in pdf format and scanning itself costed me 2000(43$,35euro) !
pavi: oh .. I wish you could give it to me cheap ( again mentioned non profit)
singh: map data is always COMMERCIAL ( loudly)
pavi:thankyou for your time

Left with a disappointment !

Location: Police Quarters, Mustafa nagar, Khammam, Khammam Urban mandal, Khammam, Telangana, 507003, India
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Discussion

تعليق من JohnSmith فى 25 June 2010 at 08:54

Even if you could buy it from him, it doesn't sound like a source suitable for OSM since he probably doesn't have the rights to be selling it.

تعليق من pavithrans فى 25 June 2010 at 12:07

@johnsmith : I was under the impression that the data would be under public domain as I first went to a Govt office from where I was redirected to a private person ( to avoid bureaucratic channels) . Till the time I reached the private person and his offer of 5000 I was not sure of license.

Even now its a private person willing to sell the govt data ! I will be approaching the Govt people through proper channels and try to convince them to release the data in public domain .

تعليق من pavithrans فى 25 June 2010 at 12:10

Note: Govt people in India *are* willing to release data in public domain but they dont want the additional steps like uploading a document to web . They are damn lazy and love to avoid work . I dont think they have commercial mindset or planning to make some money .

Middle men are the biggest exploiters in the country :(

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