Contrast Albemarle’s open and excellent approach to GIS to West Virginia’s:

Now a county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit trying to block the tax maps from being put online, claiming copyright infringement and financial damages since fewer people are coming to her to buy paper copies at $8 per page.

It would be very useful if the City of Charlottesville would upgrade their GIS applications – rich and accurate GIS applications are mighty useful to the well-prepared Realtor (and consumer).

The comments in the /. article are mighty interesting. (I filter them and read only the highest-rated ones)