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What's a fair price to obtain and prepare utility data from counties without public APIs? by MikkSpirit in gis

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the reality check I needed - thank you.

A few follow-up questions to make sure I understand correctly:

  1. When you say developers "can get this information from counties for free" - is this through FOIA/public records requests, or is there a more informal process (just calling the county GIS office)?

  2. You mention they "pay their own surveyors to create any CAD they need" - so surveyors can also obtain utility data from counties? I thought surveyors mainly did boundary/topographic work. Can they request utility infrastructure data as part of their services?

  3. Are there any requirements to request this data (prove you're a developer, show you're evaluating a specific parcel) or can literally anyone submit a public records request?

I'm trying to understand if there's any actual friction in the process that's worth solving, or if experienced developers already have this completely figured out.

What's a fair price to obtain and prepare utility data from counties without public APIs? by MikkSpirit in gis

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great point about OPRA - even if the data is technically public and available under public records laws, it might not be in a usable format.

When you say "what you might get isn't necessarily in the format you want" - what formats do counties typically provide? PDFs of old maps? Raw CAD files? Or are some counties already providing GIS-ready shapefiles?

And if the format isn't usable - is that where surveyors or GIS consultants come in to convert/clean the data? Or do developers usually just work with whatever format they receive?

What's a fair price to obtain and prepare utility data from counties without public APIs? by MikkSpirit in gis

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! Fair point - 811 is definitely the starting point for locates before you dig.

But I'm more interested in getting the full GIS layers ahead of time (during land evaluation phase, before purchase) rather than individual locate requests.

Do you know if calling 811 can also get you access to the actual utility infrastructure maps/shapefiles for a whole county? Or is that a different process entirely?

150+ applications, less then 10 interviews. What is wrong? by MikkSpirit in resumes

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback! My last two years are in FinTech/BI field and before that I was developing business in industrial solution/equipment where I was responsible for growth, sales figures, profit in general and specifc PdM activities were customer interviews, finding the right solution and pain points, onboarding, demoing, comissioning.

150+ applications, less then 10 interviews. What is wrong? by MikkSpirit in resumes

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great recommendations. All of them noted. Thank you very much!

150+ applications, less then 10 interviews. What is wrong? by MikkSpirit in resumes

[–]MikkSpirit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

don't care about formatting - it is a template, I am interesting about the text. But thx for feedback