State of California Trying to Close GIS Data and Reclassify It as Non-Public

[pius]

http://www.cfac.org/content/index.php/weblog/cfac_protests_new_legislation_curbing_access_to_government_mapping_data/

[icky]

Bullshit legislation, but take solace in the fact that government-produced GIS data is usually crap. :-)

[uuilly → icky]

This is often true. I downloaded a simple world border set from NGA and it took days of cleaning. It's about the only part of my code that's commented b/c it took a mess of code to clean up a mess of data. But still, cost effective or not, I would rather clean it myself than buy it.