Thank you for the info. I was looking for a study like that.
The AEMET is not the only public organization charging for data in
Spain. Although it has been in the spotlight recently, there are many
other datasets at the INE (Spanish national statistical office) and
other agencies which are not free.
It should be noted that whereas raw data might be relatively
inexpensive, creating properly cleansed and processed datasets does
cost money. Has anybody thought about the possibility that pubic
agencies may no longer provide expensive datasets if they are forced
to give them away for free?
There is also a "social cost" problem: if agencies would be required
to relase data for free, they might release the worst quality
datasets. The cost of cleansing them would fall on the private sector
and many private agents would be forced to perform this cleansing by
themselves. Wouldn't it lead to economic inefficiencies?
Best regards,
Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com
2012/11/5 Ton Zijlstra <
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