mapperzUK wrote: > only 47% is tax payer's money - the rest is from commerical and > licence sales. > If you were a shareholder in a company with 47 percent would you put up the company charging you for "any thing at all" which that company produced? > hence the word 'government owned' as we have limited access to it. > US considers any money made by the government to be well pretty close to the same as tax payer money..it frequently gets redistributed via the same coffers ie it gets distributed within the government or even as tax refunds (though given debt levels the latter are more a political ploy).
The key peice is however in the US "information" is treated as a special case - as something they cant charge for. Geodata is effectively a matter of public record and no different than the other reports and records. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
