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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Cost of GIS Data |
| Date: |
11/18/2002 10:17:03 PM |
| From: |
Robert Heitzman |
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>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.
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Most of the layers listed are available free elsewhere. Your county GIS
folks should be ashamed of themseleves!
Look into FOIA requests which should require them to turn over the data for
free after they spend tens of thousands of dollars burning up legal and
meeting time - its what they do, they don't mind.
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