USA (Maryland): GIS open data bill set to advance in state legislature
Despite opposition from the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO)
which argued that county governments should be able to recoup overhead
costs for maintaining software and hardware for the mapping data, a bill
that would free up state GIS data is poised to advance in the Maryland
legislature this week.
Senate Bill 94, which was recommended by the newly-created Maryland
Council on Open Data, would amend state law to guarantee that GIS
mapping data is available largely for free. It was designed in the
spirit of the Open Data Act, which was passed last year and encourages
data to be made available to the public for free.
The last regulations around public access to the mapping data were
passed in 1992, when the technology was still new and more expensive to
operate. Some GIS mapping data is already available for free, but the
law still states that entities can charge for it.
See: Senate Bill 94,?
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0094f.pdf
Source:?
http://technical.ly/baltimore/2015/02/18/gis-open-data-bill-sb94-bill-ferguson/--
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