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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Cost of GIS Data |
| Date: |
11/19/2002 02:37:48 PM |
| From: |
Ryan Morgan |
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Julia-
Thank you for the response. You might consider doing what Maricopa County,
AZ is considering. They are looking at reselling in the private sector to
recoup their costs for updating and maintenence of their parcel data.
Currently they charge $.10 per parcel (ridiculous) and you have to buy the
whole county (around $100,000 at that rate.) Many people don't need the
entire layer, however, so they are looking into giving the data to a few key
businesses (we happen to be an aerial photography provider) and asking for a
rate on every parcel sold (say $.01.) This way, they don't tie up resources
querying a million unpredictable requests, and they don't have to do any
marketing since the private provider is doing all of the work (and charging
$.02 per record.) Lets face it, the private sector is much better at
marketing products, why not get a few locals excited enough about your data
and enter this kind of relationship? You'll just be counting money!
Cheers,
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Julia Harrell [mailto:Julia.Harrell@ncmail.net]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:23 PM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: RE: GISList: Cost of GIS Data
Ryan
>> I've found in my dealings with beurocrats and their GIS data,
>> they are really hesitant to give it to anyone in the private sector.
>> I hazard to guess it's becasue they don't want anyone to find their
>> mistakes and try to hold them accountable.
No, the reason for not GIVING it to private sector for free is because
many of them will turn around and try to resell it at a profit.
When our GIS data contains outdated or missing information it is almost
always because no one has provided any funding for that update work to
happen. In our state, the legislature mandates that our agency maintain
the Corporate GIS Database, yet they conveniently keep forgetting to
allocate us ANY operating budget money whatsoever.
Try having to operate like a private business while still being hamstrung
by all the various government rules, like NOT being able to actually
compete with the private sector on RFP's. It's extremely hard
just to make ends meet, let alone keep 100+ data layers current
at all times AND give them away for free to the private sector.
We'd like nothing better than to be able to afford to keep all
the layers current and allow anyone who wants to download them for
free, but guess what - that takes a huge budget we just don't have.
http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cost.html
- Julia Harrell
NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
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