On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Moules <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Suchith, > > > "1. How much (roughly) is the UK government (central/local government etc) > spending in buying properitery GIS licences for the last 10 years > (2005-2015)? Is there any plans for on savings target for the next 10 years > ?"
> Otherwise I guess it'd be trawling through: > https://data.gov.uk/data/openspending-report/index (maybe get a student to > do some scraping?) > > Local government is harder without asking each authority individually and/or > finding their pages then scraping them. Open Data doesn't mean Easy Data. OpenSpending has some nice interfaces to government spending worldwide, and you can obviously put in the name of your favourite proprietary GIS company to see what, for example, London spent on them: https://openspending.org/gb-local-gla/entries?q=esri The entire "Software Maintenance" section for London is downloadable: https://openspending.org/gb-local-gla/expenditure-account/536510/entries#expenditure-account:536510 Barry _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
