I have had no trouble obtaining data from various governments here in Utah. Once they made me do a GRAMA[1] and the data is not always readily available for download, but so far I have gotten what I asked for at the city of Salt Lake, the transit agency UTA as well as the state GIS dept AGRC.
[1] http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/grama.html On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 12/11/2012 1:49 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: >> >> Interested to hear what experiences other mappers have had in other >> parts of the country. > > > My county has virtually the same copyright, and sells a GIS DVD for $500. > For the time being, I have given up the idea of any import - the biggest > gain for me would be addresses, but other than that, not much; I don't care > about buildings at the moment. > > I am keeping an eye out for any state legislation that might make > taxpayer-funded GIS data public domain so that I can prod my local > representatives to support it with confidence. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us