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It's not a commercial service, but a government one. The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellites belong to a department of the US gove

• amelius 11y ago
  In many countries, public transport is run by the government, but still costs money. Governmental does not have to be orthogonal to commercial.
  • bjelkeman-again 11y ago
    In Sweden the agency that deals with cartography and land measurements (Lantmäteriet) charged money for their data. An acquaintance who works with the government checked their income and where it same from. Something like 80% came from other government departments and the rest from companies. But the extra 20% was roughly the cost of running the administration to manage the billing. So the data got limited use for no financial gain. In May they started releasing the maps under Creative Commons [1]. Not only me was really excited about this here in Sweden. [1] in Swedish http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.616018/slapp-kartorna-loss-det-ar-var--lantmateriets-databas-ute http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.616018/slapp-kartorna-...
  • rsaxvc 11y ago
    Save for certain privacy concerns, data collected through public funding should belong to the people who funded it.
  • jdietrich 11y ago
    With a few exceptions, any content created by the US federal government is in the public domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...