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Thread #159380   Message #3776583
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Mar-16 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: ...this land is private property
Subject: RE: BS: ...this land is private property
Donuel: look for "google earth parcel data". What you were asking for was briefly available free, but Google removed it a few weeks ago. And they don't seem willing to say why, or what it might cost to get it back.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/2Bpdn1eQeuQ

It seems if you have a few thousand dollars a year to spend, you can still get that functionality by licencing it from the firms that were supplying it to Google. Good luck finding what data is available, who owns it and what software can display it to you.

That article implies that usage of GIS data is MUCH more widespread by an enormous range of businesses (which do have that money to spend) than I ever imagined. I knew it was huge, but I didn't realize it was THAT huge. The GIS data industry must have an annual turnover in billions, but it's so diffusely organized almost nobody has an overall picture of what it's up to. (Google probably does).