1. TRANSITION TO MARKET ECONOMY IN CASE OF GI ? By Katalin Tóth Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Budapest 6th EC-GIS WORKSHOP

2. HISTORYHISTORY 1989 TRANSITION OF ECONOMY PLANIFICATION MARKET ECONOMY

3. MARKETMARKET GI TURNOVER OF HUNGARIAN GI RELATED COMPANIES (kHUF)

4. MARKETMARKET GI DEMAND Government (planning, monitoring, self governments) Private sector (utilities, telecom companies, infrastructure) OFFER NMA (Basic & derived data, only 2% of total turnover of the sector) Private companies (some 60-70 mainly SME)

5. MARKETMARKET GI TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT 1996-97 30% 1997-9810% GDP GIS 4,8% Concentration of the market 1998 5 companies cover 44% of the market 15 companies cover 72% of the market

6. MARKETINGMARKETING GI MARKET RESEARCH In every 2 years - limited mainly to the offer No sufficient interactions with the users - the GI products do not always correspond to the needs o users The Hungarian user is price sensitive For sustaining the growth wide promotion activities are required

7. PRODUCTSPRODUCTS WHAT IS SOLD? Data?Product? The role of NMA Prepare and enable a general data policy Elaborate a coherent pricing system Define the legal framework for the use of data (Control the use of the data)

8. EXAMPLEEXAMPLE MKH - HUNGARIAN ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY DATABASE Source: cadastral data Input: co-ordinates of directly measured points Derived products: databases of different resolution compiled by generalisation TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

9. EXAMPLEEXAMPLE MKH - HUNGARIAN ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY DATABASE PRICING OF THE PRODUCT For original data: ministerial directives: 1 point: HUF 80 + VAT Full country: Derived products: price-list Polygon-based hybrid system with „monetary” generalisation

10. EXAMPLEEXAMPLE MKH - HUNGARIAN ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY DATABASE DERIVED PRODUCTS: PRICE-LIST

11. CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION TRANSITION… IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE? NO In case of basic data YES In case o derived data WHAT’S NEXT? Persuade the competent organisations that the tasks in this field should be solved Elaborate numeric examples of pricing, for demonstration of different methods

12. FINALLYFINALLY katalin.toth@fomigate.fomi.hu