Now they want you to pay for nearmap what can I use now

[The Yeti]

Ive been using nearmap for a while, for no other reason than I like it I like looking arround my area and so on.

now they want you to pay what else is availaible for free? that updates on a regular basis?

[pcman]

nothing is anywhere near as good .... hence why they can charge for it , google maps the the closest but its 3-4 years behind

[The Yeti]

Thanks for the reply

The pricing I saw for a near map license was crazy money

[Russ]

I always thought you Yeti's could find your way anywhere, what's this nonsense about needing maps

[The Yeti]

Don't need them which is why I'm not paying

I like to watch

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Thanks for the reply

The pricing I saw for a near map license was crazy money

Yep, crazy ain't it?
I posted the prices in the Google earth thread....
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showpos...1&postcount=15

[2011G6E]

I was shocked at what Near Map had done...it's the exact same way a drug dealer works..."The first few tastes are free my friend...but once you're hooked, then I start charging!"

[MDS69]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Yep, crazy ain't it?
I posted the prices in the Google earth thread....
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showpos...1&postcount=15

I love nearmap and use it on average once a week but was shocked to also learn it wasn't for free anymore. I went looking for the fees but couldn't find them but just clicked on the link above and nearly fell off my seat.

[JC]

My niece's partner flies over Melbourne, geelong and sydney doing the mapping stuff - not sure if it's for near map, but I'd guess it is. He gets paid so they need to generate fees somehow.

[mac_man_luke]

if they made a personal licence that was affordable id imagine lots would sign up - instead they just cut them out?

[MDS69]

Originally Posted by mac_man_luke

if they made a personal licence that was affordable id imagine lots would sign up - instead they just cut them out?

I would have thought around $150.00 per year for a 1 user personal license would be appropiate.

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by MDS69

I would have thought around $150.00 per year for a 1 user personal license would be appropiate.

yea I was thinking arround $100 even if the full subcription customers get the updates a month sooner, its still alot more uptodate than the alternative

[Charliewool]

Agree totally.. It's a fantastic site (and really useful, especially for measurements etc)
I'd gladly pay a 100 or so a year, but 6 grand is just bloody ridiculous!

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Agree totally.. It's a fantastic site (and really useful, especially for measurements etc)
I'd gladly pay a 100 or so a year, but 6 grand is just bloody ridiculous!

Its great for measurments etc, also as we are still setting out our block I find it really usefull for marking up changes I plan so I can see how it will look & work,

Ive been known to take a screen capture and then draw all over it and discuss it with the mrs be for we make changes

Fortunatly I have an untampered with image from the last refresh

[Charliewool]

Yep... exactly what I used it for too... Swimming pool placement and even planned out most of the landscaping once the house frame was positioned on the block.
Was also interesting watching our house go from a bare paddock thru to completion.
Apparently the solar panel guys love it to map out available roof space.

[Stagg]

We used it for work (doing solar panels ahaha) and yeah the other week all of a sudden you had to pay for it. If you ask me, it was a **** cunning business move. If you think of it, everyone is using it for free and becomes dependent on it, then all of a sudden needs to pay for it. We had to pay $5000 for five yearly licences pretty much immediately because otherwise we couldn't do our job properly.

I hear it's quite popular with builders and architects as well. anyone know if Nearmap is a publicly listed company? last week the share price would have gone through the roof..

[EFFalcon]

Originally Posted by Stagg

We used it for work (doing solar panels ahaha) and yeah the other week all of a sudden you had to pay for it. If you ask me, it was a **** cunning business move. If you think of it, everyone is using it for free and becomes dependent on it, then all of a sudden needs to pay for it. We had to pay $5000 for five yearly licences pretty much immediately because otherwise we couldn't do our job properly.

I hear it's quite popular with builders and architects as well. anyone know if Nearmap is a publicly listed company? last week the share price would have gone through the roof..

Pretty sure that was the point.

It was free for "PERSONAL USE"

businesses were abusing the licence, especially solar installers, when they should have been paying for it in the first place.

[DoreSlamR]

It's come in handy for me quite often as a landscaper, so I too went and looked up the pricing and I too nearly died lol

I don't blame them for charging though, as it wouldn't be cheap to regularly update aerial photographs.

Just wasn't expecting it to be so high!

[Full Noise]

I know that this is an old thread so save your stupid thread mining jokes for something else.

I got this email two days ago, has anyone else received it yet?

I still feel like telling them to shove it as a matter of principle but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

http://comms.info.nearmap.com/index....dst6EPXA%3D%3D

[The Yeti]

Yea, I got the same one,

It's still quite a bit of money for what I would use it for, but your right its step in the right diection

[Franco Cozzo]

So what is this near map thing, is it like google earth?

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

So what is this near map thing, is it like google earth?

Yeah but about 1,000,000 times better.

[JC]

My niece's partner flies for near map - someone's gotta pay his wages I suppose.

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by JC

My niece's partner flies for near map - someone's gotta pay his wages I suppose.

JC, I have no problem with that.

It’s the way they went about it. Letting everyone view it free for years then having the audacity to charge $6000 a year to view what we’d been seeing for nothing.

To me, they are like a bunch of drug dealers. Give you the stuff for free and when you’re hooked, whammmo.

If they let people have a short trial from the get go then charged a fee for ongoing use, that would have been a different situation. They probably would have kept a lot of people onside. Even though it’s a fantastic site, they can still shove it up their Khyber.

My bet is that the money from the councils and other corporate clients must have dried up, otherwise why would they be doing this after two years?

[galaxy xr8]

Blah... I hope nobody pay's and they relinquish and go back to offering it for free like they 1'st did, surly they can gain their investment via other means like other free websites do, if they are so much better then google earth then people will browse and the traffic will jump and so will company's that will want to advertise with them etc...No different to how Facebook and likes work.

[EgoFG]

0 to 6k is a big step !
They should have a more incremental, and slightly crippled step in between

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

Yeah but about 1,000,000 times better.

Yep, Our local Council called them in to take pics of the Wagga Floods a few years ago, you could clearly see oil trails from the cars in the used car yards.

If you were/are growing naughty plants in your back yard you wouldn't like Nearmap

One of the problems they had when it was free was that there were a LOT of Solar Panel installers using it as a cheap way to quote jobs.

[Neale]

I've never used nearmap but there is one for NSW called SIX maps. Its run by the NSW Government that is heaps better than Google from the air plus they are in the process of combining current aerial photos with historic photos from as long ago as the 1940s, so you will be able to see how much the area has changed.

Here is the link
http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/

[Crazy Dazz]

Intramaps is pretty good. Probably not as upto date as nearmaps, but much better than google.
PLUS contains zoning, lot numbers, etc.

Only thing is, as far as I can figure out, your local council has to be a subscriber:
http://www.mapsolutions.com.au/intra...ps-public.aspx

[iCat]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Don't need them which is why I'm not paying

I like to watch

This is why I love this place lmao!!