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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Cost of GIS Data |
| Date: |
11/19/2002 02:48:53 PM |
| From: |
Jim Burnett |
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Wait till you get into hosting. Its gets worse. I saw a company charge
$20,000 put up someones GIS data. Then I started www.freegishosting.com
You all have some good pointers though.
-jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Morgan" <rmorgan@aerialsexpress.com>
To: "Julia Harrell" <Julia.Harrell@ncmail.net>
Cc: <gislist@geocomm.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: GISList: Cost of GIS Data
> 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 When our GIS data contains outdated or missing information it is almost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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