Barren County, Kentucky

[justinelliotmeyers]

Drove through Glasgow this weekend. Saw this and thought I'd try to get the data for the project. Recap of steps this far:
1)Reached out to PVA https://barrencountypva.com/ . Spoke with Kim Shipley about parcels and pricing logic. County does not own data, office does and charges according to state commercial guidelines. huge effort to change this

2)Was told to reach out to BITS office (http://bits-gis.com/ OR https://www.glasgowepb.com/bits/). I spoke with a very nice gentleman name Patrick. He explained their data, costs, policies, thoughts, concerns, etc. Very great conversation about current data policy and pricing. Mentioned selling to Corelogic ($.10 per address * 24,000 ish addresses) then only charing $250 every year after. So that's awesome, but data is still $2,400.00 ish now

I told him I wanted to continue the talk and not put this down just because current policies and see if there is an opportunity to get for free as we are doing this for free (or fame)!?! I told him I would see if we could get funding, or something to help foot any costs. Explained who we are, what we do, why we do it, etc.

He said he would discuss with several members of their consortium and gather their thoughts. Bit of history - 5 member groups/ govts. All started with $50k to start this department/ project in 1992. now they continue to fund it and that is why they ask for purchase to recoup some of the money.

Very long story. Kentucky has 120 counties, all with a similar reason why data is how it is in the policy that exists today from 1980, 90, 00, etc. Lots of work, but I love this part to the project. Challenging and most likely won't go the way I want it to, but still want to put in effort and try to add difficult data.