* On 26-Apr-2007 at  8:11PM PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Census has to be able to redistribute geospatial files to the public, in
> order to enable the best use of census and survey results, and to my
> knowledge Census had not found a vendor that would agree to its putting the
> vendor's data into the public domain.  Some information is protected by
> legislation, but basically everything else is and has to be open to the
> public.

This kind of committment gives real meaning to the term "public
servant". Other countries' NMAs would do well to take a hint from our
Census Bureau. Thanks very much for your perspective, Charles.

SDE
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