On Oct 3, 1:11 am, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 12:40 am, MapSavage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Which web service ? I am curious how it is done.
>
> > Esri's ArcWeb Services. It is a pay as go service, each visit costs a
> > credit and is deducted from your account.
>
> I was interested to know how much this costs: according to ESRI
> website, 100000 credits costs $1250, or 1.25 cents per credit. I
> guess that sounds kinda cheap (even if you have to wait 40-60 seconds
> for a map of 3000 counties). Overall I think the ArcWebServices
> business model doesn't makes sense anymore. It's better to make
> services freely available and get revenue through advertising like
> Google does.
The U S Census Department provides FREE public domain cartographic
boundary files.
www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html
www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/co2000.html
The USGS provides FREE OGC overlays which can be combined with
Google's static maps.
www.polyarc.us/usgs
Click the map to center it.
The same could be done with Google's dynamic maps. I cannot imagine
paying something the government provides for free.
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