[Talk-us] Ramsey County Minnesota opened its GIS data to the public today

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Sat Feb 15 03:13:49 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:00 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hennepin too.  The MetroGIS Policy Board passed a recommendation for all
> of the 7 counties to do so.  Hennepin and Ramsey were the first to vote.
>
> Give them a little time and I expect to see clear license terms and
> convenient download.  When we are done with the MN Geospatial commons, much
> of the data will hopefully be there with at least one open data format.
>
> I give MetroGIS and the counties a lot of credit for reevaluating their
> policies and business models and changing.
>

I did see that the state opened their data up. I used to work with MN state
IT people. They always seemed to be very progressive. And since they are in
St. Paul, I'm sure some of it's rubbing off on the counties.


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Clifford
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