{"id":367,"date":"2009-02-25T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-02-25T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T13:37:47","slug":"geodata-cost-recovery-eaton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/367\/geodata-cost-recovery-eaton-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Geodata Cost Recovery: Eaton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pointed out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatoncounty.org\/Departments\/Eaton_County_Infomation_Systems\/Eaton_County_GIS_Portal\/GIS_Data.htm\">Eaton County&#8217;s GIS Data Prices<\/a> last night, and all I can say is how disappointed I am that people can still feel that this is an appropriate way to fleece their taxpayers. The data is collected, reproduction costs for the data are probably in the realm of a couple hundred bucks &#8212; less, if you just distribute them online. (Clearly, you already have a website.) Yet you charge twelve *thousand* dollars for copies &#8212; and even after that, you&#8217;re still limited in what you can do.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of thing is just a damn shame. Taxpayers should insist that this data is made available at reasonable reproduction costs; the policies of GIS departments to make money off of these things is simply silly so long as they are collected with taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>(If the GIS department does not receive state funding, then I suppose this type of cost recovery makes sense &#8212; in the same way that Sanborn or any other commercial entity would charge for it. However, I doubt that the primary client of such data isn&#8217;t the state itself, in which case it&#8217;s still taxpayer dollars covering the costs somewhere&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pointed out to Eaton County&#8217;s GIS Data Prices last night, and all I can say is how disappointed I am that people can still feel that this is an appropriate way to fleece their taxpayers. The data is collected, reproduction costs for the data are probably in the realm of a couple hundred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}