Town Fights FOI Request for GIS Data and Images 243
dweyerma writes "The state's highest court will now decide a landmark public records case involving access to aerial reconnaissance photographs and maps of Greenwich, CT. The town maintains the images in a tightly kept database known as a geographic information system, which a judge declared to be public records last December. The Connecticut Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear the town's appeal of that ruling, expediting the case by leap-frogging the state Appellate Court. The move virtually coincides with the third anniversary of the initial complaint in the case, which Greenwich resident and computer consultant Stephen Whitaker filed with the state Freedom Information Commission after the town denied his request for an electronic copy of the entire database for security and privacy reasons."
Go team! (Score:4, Funny)
GIS? (Score:3, Funny)
Uhh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:FOIA Requests and the AG (Score:5, Funny)
I do not think the word "keep" means what you think it means!
We must act! (Score:3, Funny)
We will shoot that fscking satelite down!
Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' (Score:1, Funny)
For the benefit of a non-historian: when was this?"
In the same way that Nero considered himself the best-loved emperor.
Re:Stop with the acronyms! (Score:5, Funny)
Think about it, man. Do you really want that on your conscience?
Re:Um... (Score:4, Funny)
And let's face it. Programs like Keyhole and the free World Wind are only going to get better from here on. 5-10 years from now you're going to able to pan from San Francisco to Paris, either way around, and have a 1-5meter resolution all the way, so that you can count every Starbuck along the way if you feel like it.
Who's going to spend the time to photograph the Atlantic at 1M resolution?
Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' (Score:3, Funny)
It's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Not only should we know what we think we should know, should we not also know of what we think we should not know?
Reynolds wrap (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, Reynolds Manufacturing, makers of leading aluminum foil products, announced record earnings on strong sales associated with the 2004 U.S. political season.
"Our foil sales are unprecedented," said Reynolds CEO Tom Lansky. "Between the MoveOn.org crowd, the Democratic National Committee members, the Kerry campaign, and all the loose nuts out there wrapping their heads to keep out the imaginary Ashcroft evil mind rays, we can't keep foil products on the shelf."
Lansky indicated the company would be launching a cobranded promotion with a yet announced pharmacutical manufacturer in the final weeks of the political season. The planned promotion will include a sample sized trial package of lithium, and would be promoted by spokespersons Al Gore and Howard "Screaming" Dean.
"Sanity is a serious matter for the left, as all this paranoia and irrationality eats away at their grips on reality," said Lansky. "We're pleased that the lithium package promotion will help keep our customers from going too far over the edge, and in fact are looking at other anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and attention deficit drugs for further product tie-ins right after the election. Should Bush win as expected in all the poles, we're going to have a heck of a time keeping product on the shelves."