Tuesday, April 29. 2008

Candidates Tackle GIS in Race for Lake County (IN) Surveyor

The incumbent is pro GIS having invested in it quite a bit. The Gary Post-Tribune describes it as "a computer mapping system similar to Google Earth that can put large amounts of information into an interactive map."

Two others want to cut back on the GIS budget. One candidate wants "to "slash" spending on the GIS, and build it with free software, rather than the proprietary software used by the county's consultants."

Another wants the focus to be on flooding thus he said, "I don't think (GIS) should be a priority."

It says quite a lot about the state of geospatial that such issues should be raised to the public during a local election.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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If the candidate who wants to slash spending on GIS is elected, I wonder if he will ask where the flooding problems are before or after he slashes the spending.

#1 Larry Stout (Link) on 2008-04-30 07:55 (Reply)

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