[Wabash County, IL Assessor Debbie] Gittings said her office has helped individuals interested in mapping specific locations by charging a fee and providing GIS mapping, which is stamped to note the maps are not officials surveys.
Though the county should likely charge a fee to those wanting to utilize system information for more commercial applications, Gittings said some system information has not yet been double-checked by her office; she said she doesn't want to charge money for what might be a kind of "inferior product" if the information is not correct.
Personnel have been checking GIS mapping information as time has allowed, she indicated.
Lidar data (processed and raw) is available for all 99 counties in Iowa. (That's a LOT of counites; PA only has 67!) "You can access the information with the proper software from the D.N.R.’s G-I-S library at: www.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgislibx. The original LiDAR data points for computer-aided design are available via the University of Northern Iowa’s library at: www.geotree.uni.edu."
The Strategic Planning and Partnerships Commission of Jamestown, NY has an interesting goal:
Another target for the SPPC - one that has passed from one year to the next - is finding a one-time donor for a proposed GIS work station to be located within the city Department of Development. The station would be available for many departments and also lend itself to the task of neighborhood restoration.
A consortium of Western states including Colorado, Montana, Oregon and Utah is looking for cloud storage for geographic data. The states issued an RFI last november and input based on responses are due to the state CIOs this week.
- GCN
