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This seems to have been written by someone unfamiliar with real estate, local government, natural resources, or any other traditional line of business that depe
by stickfigure 6y ago
This seems to have been written by someone unfamiliar with real estate, local government, natural resources, or any other traditional line of business that depends heavily on GIS. I don't know what my county pays for ArcGIS but it's probably substantial, and I suspect there are multiple IT employees devoted to maintaining the system.
Replicate that across nearly every single political locality in the US, probably the world. The industry is huge.
Also, "long form twitter" is dumb.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6y agoI used to work for a local government (municipality) as part of their GIS department and we were spending about 10-15 grand a year on licenses IIRC. This was for an ArcGIS server license and 3 “power users” (ArcInfo), 5 “editors” (ArcEdit) and 5 “viewers” (ArcView). We were pretty small compared to most orgs, basically 3-4 people in the department at any given time. I distinctly remember the ArcGIS server license being a very significant portion of that number, maybe even half of it. Things may have changed since then (this was nearly a decade ago, before ArcGIS Pro licensing style was implemented), but probably not by much, you can probably extrapolate that ballpark and figure how much any actually decent sized org spends on Arc suite of products (a lot)
- campchase 6y agoHi stickfigure, this is Joe from the dumb long form twitter thread you just wrote five sentences critiquing. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.