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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Cost of GIS Data |
| Date: |
11/18/2002 12:34:22 PM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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Rich,
All I can say is Wow. Usually, Government organizations typically hide
behind the "cost recovery" argument in charging nominal fees for
existing GIS (or any other data for that matter), and price usually
varies by medium (CD, paper, etc.). However, your county seems to have
reinvented the US Mint in their pricing structures listed below. A
quick number crunching exercise reveals the county would make a little
over $1.2 million if someone wanted to purchase all the layers/themes
listed, presuming that one might be so foolish as to actually want roads
with names and addresses, rails with names, and parcels with attributes.
It would really burn me up if I were a taxpayer in this county and I
wanted to obtain this, paying for it once is sufficient, paying twice is
a problem. Is there a different structure for general public consumer
and corporate usage (say like GDT, ETAK, etc.)? I would also question
how a county could charge this, when, I am presuming that their source
data is not all generated within and by the county themselves. For
example, DTM points? Landcover? If the county shared the initial costs
with either the State and/or Feds, I am sure someone at those levels
would like their cut of the "cost" recovery when they start selling it
at these premiums. Lastly, you'd probably want to ask the county GIS
folks or whomever mandated this budget whether or not all that "cost
recovery" money is going to go back into the GIS program and help
maintain and improve the technology, salaries, quality, etc. of the GIS
data and associated resources. If not, then that would truly be a hard
pill to swallow. Better yet, it's sort of like paying a premium to
download USGS DEMs that were once free to download. Sorry, to good to
resist.
Cheers.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Leeson [mailto:rll@ddcinc.com]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:47 PM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: GISList: Cost of GIS Data
Hello List,
I have a question. The county I live in is going to start charging for
GIS data. I was hoping to hear from other counties, cities, users, etc.
I am trying to find out if other counties even charge for data, and if
so their pricing structure. The county pricing structure is listed
below, and this seems like a lot, considering there are about 583 tiles
in our county. We were told this is based on the pricing structure of
other counties, including Richland County here in South Carolina. Thanks
in advance for the replies and I will sum if it appears there is enough
interest.
1998/2001 B&W Aerials $75 per tile
Thematic Layers - per tile fee
Soils $100
Building Footprints $100
Streets $20
Streets w/ Names $30
Streets w/ Addresses $40
Hydro $15
Hydro w/ Feature Names $25
Rail $15
Rail w/ Feature Names $15
Elevation (2' Contours) $800
Elevation (DTM Points) $700
Landcover $100
Parcels $100
Parcels w/ Attribute Data $175
Thematic Layers - Full County Coverage
Bridges Free
County Boundary $100
County Council Districts $100
Public Safety $100
Education $100
Other layers grouped by theme $100
Paper maps (materials and Services)
Size Heavy Coated Glossy Photo
8.5 x 11 $5.00 each
11 x 17 $12.50 each
20 x 30 $22.50 each $37.50
C Size $15.50 each $27.50
D Size $22.50 each $37.50
E Size $37.50 each $67.50
Hourly service fee (2 Hour Minimum) $65.00 per hour
Rich Leeson
GIS Analyst
DDC Engineers, Inc.
1298 Professional Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
rll@ddcinc.com
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