Select Committee on Transport, Local Government and the Regions Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence


Annex D

ORDNANCE SURVEY PRODUCT PRICING

1.  FOLDED PAPER MAP PRODUCTS:

Folded paper map products Product
Product description
Price
ExplorerTM
1:25 000 scale maps (4cm to 1km or 2½ inches to 1 mile)
£6.99
Outdoor LeisureTM
1:25 000 scale maps (4cm to 1 km or 2½ inches to 1 mile)
£6.99
Pathfinder®

2.  BUSINESS GEOGRAPHIC DIGITAL PRODUCTS AND DATASETS:

Business Geographics—Digital products and datasets
  
Annual licence:
Great Britain cover
Single terminal
Product or dataset
Year 1
Year 2
onwards
MiniScale—1:1 000 000 scale data
£500
£125
1: 50 000 Scale Colour Raster
£5,000
£1,250
1: 50 000 Scale Gazetteer
£500
£125
Meridian 2 Communication Theme
£5,000
£1,250
Meridian 2 Topographic Theme
£2,000
£500
Meridian 2 Combined Themes
£6,000
£1,500
1: 250 000 Scale Colour Raster
£500
£125
Strategi—1: 250 000 scale vector data
£2,000
£500
Code-Point—georeference postcode data
£2,000
£500
Code-Point with polygons
£9,000
£2,250
Land-Form PANORAMA—1: 50 000 height data (contours or DTM)
£4,000
£1,000
Boundary-Line—administrative boundaries
£2,500
£625
OSCAR Traffic-Manager
£10,000
£2,500
OSCAR Traffic-Manager—address ranges
£7,500
£1,875
Note: The charges per year for year 2 and onward will be 25% of the then current year 1 price.


2.1  Coverage

  Business Geographics products or datasets are available as Great Britain and/or by country and are priced as a percentage of Great Britain cover. 1: 50 000 Scale Gazetteer, Code-Point, Code-Point with polygons and MiniScale are available for Great Britain only. Prices are as follows:

Area supplied
Percentage of
Great Britain price
Wales
20
Scotland
40
England
50


  In addition, 1:50 000 scale Colour Raster and Land-Form PANORAMA are available by tile. A tile is 20km by 20km at a cost of £10.

2.2  Terminals:

  Where more than one terminal or workstation has access to Ordnance Survey data (whether for simultaneous use or not) the following scale of charges applies:

Number of terminals
Multiplier to the standard list
price
1
X 1
2
X 1.5
3 to 5
X 2
6 to 20
X 3
21 to 100
X 4
101 to 500
X 6
Over 500
X 8


2.3  Extranet and World Wide Web

  The list price for a product or dataset includes its use on an Intranet. Use on an Extranet or the World Wide Web attracts an Internet licence fee in addition to an internal business use licence. The Internet licence fee is equal to the price for the product or dataset for a single terminal seat licence.

2.4  Large Order Discounts

  The following discounts apply to orders in excess of listed amounts. The discount applies to the revenue in each band:

List price value of order
Percentage
discount
Up to £100,000
0
£100,001 to £250,000
5
£250,001 to £500,000
15
Over £500,000
25


2.5  Some pricing examples

Example 1—A requirement for Wales only coverage of Strategi—for use on 8 terminals

Year 1
Great Britain list price:
£2,000
Wales only:
£2,000
X
20%
=
£400
8 terminals;
£400
X
3
=
£1,200
Year 2
25% of year 1:
£1,200
X
25%
=
£300

Example 2—A requirement for 35 tiles of 1:50 000 scale Colour Raster on 15 terminals

Year 1
Tiles:
£10
X
35
=
£350
15 terminals:
£350
X
3
=
£1,050
Year 2
25% of year 1:
£1,050
X
25%
=
£265.50


3.  DETAILED DIGITAL PRODUCTS AND DATASETS
Land-Line/Land-Line Plus—price per tile

Tile:
Standard maintenance:
Premium maintenance:
Premium plus maintenance:

Urban (1:1250 scale):
500m x 500m
£37.70
£39.70
£41.20
Rural (1:2500 scale):
1km x 1km
£17.55
£18.25
£18.75
Moorland (1:10 000 scale)
5km x 5km
£36.10
£38.00
£39.90


  Note: Land-Line and Land-Line Plus is supplied under an annual payment contract which includes a maintenance service. Pro rata payments apply for part years. Prices do not include copyright fees.

Superplan Data
Urban data source 1: 1250 scaleSuperplan Agents set their
Rural data source 1: 2500 scaleown prices and can provide
Moorland data source 1: 10 000 scaletheir price list on request.


  The Superplan copyright licence is a 12 month licence, obtainable from Superplan agents

Superplan paper plots
Data source
Ground area covered:
Urban
Rural
500m by 500m
£60
N/A
1000m by 1000m
N/A
£60


  Copyright royalties are payable on run-on copies for Superplan paper plots.

1: 10 000 scale raster data
National cover—Great Britain:
£144,000
Single payment (per 5km x 5km tile)
Up to 10 tiles
£58.50
11 to 100 tiles
£49.50
101 to 1,000 tiles
£36.00
Over 1,000 tiles
£13.50
Standard price for updates
£18.00
Upgrades 1 to 1,000 tiles
£18.00
Upgrades over 1,000 tiles
Negotiable


  Prices include copyright fees for one year for agreed business use of the data on up to 50 PCs or workstations. At the end of the first year an annual licence fee is payable.
Address-Point® data
Annual licence fees payable

Terminals on which data is used: 123-5 6-2021+
Multipliers:x 1x 1.5 x 2x 4x 8
Great Britain£15,000 £22,500£30,000£60,000 £120,000
Regional£3,750£5,625 £7,500£15,000 £30,000


  Region sets are defined by the 11 European Regional Development Agency areas which are Scotland, Wales, and the 9 English Office Regions.

Land—Form PROFILE data

Per 5km x 5km tile
Initial supply
(Year 1)
Annual payment
(Year 2 onwards)

Up to 10 tiles
£100
£35
11-100 tiles
£70
£25
101-2,000 tiles
£42
£15
Over 2,000 tiles
£25
£9
Coverage:
Great Britain
£225,000
£78,750
England
£150,000
£52,500
Scotland
£115,000
£40,250
Wales
£50,000
£17,500
Coastal (Great Britain up to 5m)
£95,000
£33,250
Terminals:


  Where more than one terminal or workstation has access to Ordnance Survey data (whether for simultaneous use or not ) the following scale of charges for initial supply and annual payment will apply:


Initial supply
Annual payment

1 terminal
Standard list price X 1
Standard prices include fees for agreed business use of the data on up to 50 terminals
2—5 terminals
Standard list price X 1.2
6—20 terminals
Standard list price X 1.3
21—50 terminals
Standard list price X 1.4
50 plus terminals
Negotiable


  Prices include copyright fees for agreed business use of the data and the right to make up to 5,000 hard copies per year.

Administrative boundary maps


Paper
Film

1A and 1B European and Westminster parliamentary constituency boundary maps
£18
Price on application
2 to 9 Local government boundary maps
£18
Price on application


OSCAR Asset-Manager


Link range:
Price per link:

The first 50,000 links:
14p
The next 250,000 links:
7p
The next 500,000 links:
3.5p
The next 1,000,000 links:
1.75p
The balance of remaining links:
0.875p
Approximate total link count:
3.2 million


  Regional and country-wide datasets can be purchased as follows:

OSCAR Asset-Manager

Great Britain
£70,000
Ireland
£65,500
Scotland
£30,500
Wales
£19,250
London (within M25)
£18 250


  Customers automatically receive a maintenance service. An annual fee is payable for supply of the data and the maintenance service. The annual fee is calculated according to which of the following three price bands applies:

Band 1:
1—5 PCs or workstations:
standard charge as above
Band 2:
6—20 PCs or workstations
standard charge plus one third
Band 3:
21—50 PCs or workstations
standard charge plus two thirds


  Prices include copyright fees for agreed business use of the data on an agreed number of PCs or workstations and the right to make up to 5,000 hard copies per year.

SiteplanTMpaper plots


Plot output scale
Ground area covered

1: 500
80m x 80m
£25
1: 1250
200m x 200m
£25
1:2500
400m x 400m
£25


  Copyright royalties plus VAT are payable on extra copies of the same Siteplan.

Siteplan dataTM


Plot output scale
Ground area covered

1:500
80m X 80m
Superplan/Siteplan Agents set their own prices
1:1250
200m X 200m
1:2500
400m X 400m


  The copyright licence agreement for Siteplan data is a 12 month non-transferable and non-exclusive licence to use Siteplan data for internal business use.

  National Street Gazetteer—insert see the NSG website.

OS MasterMapTM

  The OS MasterMap pricing model provides for two service options:

Period licence services:access to data for internal business use including hard copying
Pay As You Use:access to data via a transaction basis.


  Each line, point and area feature within the product carries a unique Topographic Identifier or TOID. These identifiers have been selected as the unit of data that will be priced. The number of TOIDs are calculated based on the customer's defined area of interest and themes selected. There are nine themes currently available such as buildings, land, water etc.

OS MasterMapTM

Basic data unit charge per Topographic Identifier (TOID)


Number of TOIDs
Value

0—4,000 TOIDs
£0.0787
4,001—40,000 TOIDs
£0.0540
40,001—400,000 TOIDs
£0.0418
400,001—4,000,000 TOIDs
£0.0314
4,000,001—15,000,000 TOIDs
£0.0210
15,000,001—40,000,000 TOIDs
£0.0173
40,000,001—70,000,000 TOIDs
£0.0163
70,000,001—250,000,000 TOIDs
£0.0155
250,000 001 + TOIDs
£0.0090


  The charge covers internal business use of the data including hardcopying. Maintenance is also covered and customers have access to change only update during the course of the licence period.

Terminal multipliers:

  The following terminal multipliers apply to the cost of the data:

1 terminal:
x 1
2 terminals:
x 1.08
3—5 terminals:
x 1.23
6+ terminals:
x 1.54
Licence period multiplier:


  The longer the term of the period licence, the more beneficial the end price is for the customer. This incentive is calculated through the application of the following multipliers:

1 year:x 1
2 years:x 1.92
3 years:x 2.76
Cumulative order value discounts:


  The following discounts are offered on period licence services ordered direct from Ordnance Survey:


Order value
Discount

£0—£50,000
0%
£50,001—£70,000
25%
£70,001—£150,000
30%
£150,001—£2,250,000
35%
£2,250,001 +
40%

4.  COPYRIGHT CHARGES

  The current minimum copyright charge, where it is not included in the price of the dataset is £45.




 
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