Parsing a PDF file

[Jim Hurley]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> 
> On 07/09/2016 08:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
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>> Across the US we're beginning to see a revolution in government data
>> sharing.
> 
> <cough>
> Except, of course, when it comes to actual data.

Hi Mark. See my reply to Richard. The actual data I wanted was how the election turned out. 
The essential reply was: Sorry, we have limited access to our data.

It is interesting that the County’s IT department is working overtime providing county parcel data, even though there has been no pressure to do so.
I think it is because there are programmers there, and they love to program. A trait not uncommon among us LC folks.

Jim Hurley


> 
> Many of the laws we as citizens of the US are required to follow are not 
> available for us to read without paying a fee. Cal Malamud, Public 
> Resource, et al, are working to place the legal system in the public 
> domain, but the legal establishment fights back. If you want access to 
> the proceedings of U.S. federal courts, PACER is behind a paywall.
> <https://public.resource.org/>
> 
> The state of Georgia (in the US, not the more reasonable country) makes 
> the claim of copyright in its lawsuit against publishing its laws: "Each 
> of these annotations is an original and creative work of authorship that 
> is protected by copyrights owned by the State of Georgia."
> 
> <https://boingboing.net/2015/07/24/georgia-suing-carl-malamud-ca.html>
> <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160702/07240834879/standards-body-whines-that-people-who-want-free-access-to-law-probably-also-want-free-sex.shtml>
> </cough>
> 
> -- 
>  Mark Wieder
>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
> 
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