Step 1: Fire all engineers on government money, to decrease "overhead" and let "industry" do it
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Step 3: Government is inefficient, inept, if not outright corrupt, we must gut it further! Goto Step 1.
The other day I was getting data from the USGS, and it was remarkable how well structured, sorted, searchable the data was, how it came in high quality, with a custom-built downloader applet that worked very nicely actoss multiple machines. I went from zero to complete solution in QGIS in one day. It's not all that bad.
Step 2: Parent post
Step 3: Government is inefficient, inept, if not outright corrupt, we must gut it further! Goto Step 1.
The other day I was getting data from the USGS, and it was remarkable how well structured, sorted, searchable the data was, how it came in high quality, with a custom-built downloader applet that worked very nicely actoss multiple machines. I went from zero to complete solution in QGIS in one day. It's not all that bad.