Information on costs, charges and revenue for map data
Dear Lands Department,
Can you provide information on the revenue your department gathers from selling and charging reproduction costs for digital maps and location data, and how many customers in a typical year use this service. Happy to get info from the most recent full year you have data for. If you direct me to any price lists or homepage outlining services that would be very useful too.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Edmunds
地政總署測繪處
LANDS DEPARTMENT
SURVEY AND MAPPING OFFICE
Dear Mr. Edmunds
Code on Access to Information (the Code): Reference no. Lands 94/15
Thank you for your enquiry. The requested information of digital map order
in FY14/15 are listed as follows:
No. of No. of Transaction No. of Amount of
Customers Copy Revenue (HK$)
Digital Map Order 696 3,422,316
2,481 28,091
Order with
user-defined 5 5 3,525 726,553
extent
Should you require any information about the digital map order and price
list, please access the Hong Kong Map Service web site
([1]https://www.hkmapservice.gov.hk/) for information.
Regards
Joanna Leung
for Senior Cartographer/HQ
Survey & Mapping Office, Lands Department
The Government of Hong Kong SAR
Tel: 2231 3192
Fax: 2116 0774
Email: [email address]
Dear Lands Department,
Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly. The attached files are very useful, but the revenue details are confusing, and I think the formatting of this message system may have misaligned it. This is the detail I received:
No. of No. of Transaction No. of Amount of
Customers Copy Revenue (HK$)
Digital Map Order 696 3,422,316
2,481 28,091
Order with
user-defined 5 5 3,525 726,553
extent
Can I clarify what these numbers mean? Is one of the figures for number of transactions, one for orders with user defined extent, and the other revenue? Which figures are for which, and what is the time period over?
This is all very useful and many thanks for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Edmunds
地政總署測繪處
LANDS DEPARTMENT
SURVEY AND MAPPING OFFICE
Dear Mr Edmunds
Regards
Joanna Leung
for Senior Cartographer/HQ
Survey & Mapping Office, Lands Department
The Government of Hong Kong SAR
Tel: 2231 3192
Fax: 2116 0774
From: Scott Edmunds <[FOI #60 email]>
To: [email address],
Date: 27/11/2015 14:56
Subject: Re: Fw: Freedom of Information request - Information on
costs, charges and revenue for map data
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Dear Lands Department,
Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly. The attached files are very
useful, but the revenue details are confusing, and I think the formatting
of this message system may have misaligned it. This is the detail I
received:
No. of No. of Transaction No. of Amount of
Customers Copy Revenue (HK$)
Digital Map Order 696 3,422,316
2,481 28,091
Order with
user-defined 5 5 3,525 726,553
extent
Can I clarify what these numbers mean? Is one of the figures for number of
transactions, one for orders with user defined extent, and the other
revenue? Which figures are for which, and what is the time period over?
This is all very useful and many thanks for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Edmunds