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by ChrisMarshallNY 2333 days ago
Absolutely spot-on.

I'm thinking of processed GIS data. If you have ever tried using the various formats that are supplied by government sites, you know what a huge pain it is.

I'm happy to pay a reasonable price for an interpreted and bowdlerized version.

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I actually have! I had to import a huge file of all of the culverts around storm drains in a state, and each culvert was multiple pieces of geometry, none of them grouped together in any logical way. It was just a huge list of rectangles that looked like culverts when viewed visually but no way to identify them as being one culvert without heuristics on how close each rectangle was to others. Massively long process that should not have been so.