Survey on economic considerations and decisions of key geodata providers and users in Czech public administration

Tomáš Řezník,Milan Konečný,Lukáš Herman,Karel Charvát

doi:10.14712/23361980.2021.12

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an empirical economic data-based survey of the costs and revenues of geographical data and Web services across public administration in Czechia. The survey was composed of questionnaires and interviews. The data was collected from the 19 biggest public producers of geographical information and 25 organizations that use geographical information. The results focus on the economic consequences of data opening, splitting finances within public administration bodies, the prioritization of activities related to geographical information, licensing issues and life cycle planning etc. We also consider user opinions on the restrictions on the (re)use of geographical information of public administration, including open data.

Highlights

It is obvious that geographic data have become an invaluable commodity and play a major role in all aspects of society (Klinkenberg 2003)
Geographical information from public administration has an irreplaceable role in all kinds of human activities
It was shown that geographical information within Czech public administration did not boast direct profitability between the years 2011 and 2015

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Introduction

It is obvious that geographic data have become an invaluable commodity and play a major role in all aspects of society (Klinkenberg 2003). It is, logical to address the issue of the economic value of geographical information in the scope of geoinformatics/geographic information science (Krek and Frank 2000; Goodchild 2003; National Research Council 2004; Crompvoets et al 2010; Hošková-Mayerová et al 2013; Crompvoets and Broucker 2015; Johnson et al 2017; Pashova and Bandrova 2017; Coumans 2018; Lü et al 2019; Craglia and Pogorzelska 2020). It seems difficult to obtain a comprehensive view based on empirical economic data from providers, distributors or users of geographic information

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