Contrast Albemarle’s open and excellent approach to GIS to West Virginia’s:Now a county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit trying to block the tax maps from being put online, claiming copyright infringement and financial damages since fewer people are coming to her to buy paper copies at $8 per page.It would be very useful if the City of Charlottesville would upgrade their GIS applications – rich and accurate GIS applications are mighty useful to the well-prepared Realtor (and consumer).The comments in the /.  article are mighty interesting.

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