philsalesses

Hey HN,

We paid a county for some GIS data, thinking it would be great, but it's complete garbage. Now we have 11 days to deliver our product to a utility in Michigan but we don't even know where to find the data we need.

We need building footprints for Kent County, MI along with their street addresses. Primarily we're looking for Grand Rapids and some of Wisconsin, MI, but if someone had access to this data, we'd like Kent County entirely just to be safe.

Does anyone know anybody who would be able to provide this, or help us find someone that can? I know Google, Nokia, Bing and a bunch of other companies have the data, but I doubt they are willing to sell it to us. Although if they did, that would be awesome.

Any ideas? I'm trying everything.

Thanks in advance, Phil

I'm meeting Tim O'Reilly tomorrow to talk about big data and the future. I'll ask him any good questions you have and after his talk with Joi Ito, I'll post the answers.

http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2012/04/18/media-lab-conversations-series-tim-oreilly