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Can you explain what the shopping cart is? I mean... do they make you select one or more files, then navigate to another page to download your selected files?
by digging 3y ago
Can you explain what the shopping cart is?
I mean... do they make you select one or more files, then navigate to another page to download your selected files?
- RosanaAnaDana 3y agoQuite literally yes. There are often multiple click throughs. Every Department, agency, sub-agency, all the way down to federal dog catcher has decided the most important thing is to invent a new way of getting data from them.
- imchillyb 3y agoSolutions vary as the budgets and talent assigned the projects do. Federal, State, local and hyper local solutions cannot be the same unless the financier is also the same.
- crizzlenizzle 3y agoSounds like Germany’s company register[1]. You can search for companies, select the documents you’d like to see (like shareholder lists), then you go through a checkout process and pay 0 EUR (used to be like a few euros years ago), and then you can finally download your file. Still a super tedious process, but at least for free nowadays. [1] https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/ https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/
- pininja 3y agoPretty much. USGS’s EarthExplorer requires a login just to download free files https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ There are other ways to access the data on here, but they’re fragmented. It’s nicely organized here so it’s a bummer they make it hard to programmatically retrieve files once you find what you’re looking for.