Figure 2: The Minnesota Survey Questionnaire

1.  Does your agency or local government use a Geographic Information 
    System (GIS)? 
    YES       NO
    If  YES , please complete this survey form.  
    If  NO , please return the survey at this point.
    
2.  What are the storage requirements of your GIS database 
    (spatial and attribute data)?     (Circle One)
    a.) <500 Mb  
    b.) 500-999 Mb 
    c.)  1-9 Gb
    d.) 10-29 Gb  
    e.) 30-49 Gb
    f.) 50  + Gb
  
3.  How does your GIS agency currently provide access to or copies of 
    electronic GIS  databases? (Circle all that apply)
    a.)  Verbal requests  
    b.)  Access from Public Terminal
    c.)  Dial-up Access
    d.)  other (specify)_______________________________________________
  
4.  Do you require the signing of a liability waiver statement, before 
    distributing data?       
    YES     NO
  
5.  Do you require that requesters NOT distribute the digital data 
    to others?
    YES     NO
  
6.  Are secondary uses of electronic GIS data restricted by:  
    (circle all that apply)

    a.)  contracts 
    b.)  license 
    c.)  copyright
    d.)  trademark
    e.)  trade secret 
    f.)  other (Please Specify)_______________________________________
  
7.  How many requests did you receive in the past Fiscal Year? _______
  
8.  What was the total revenue generated from requests in the past
    Fiscal Year? 
    $__________________
  
9.  Are stakeholders, constituents, other government agencies and 
    commercial ventures all treated the  same?   
    YES     NO       
    (If NO,  please explain)  
    
    
10. What costs do you attempt to recover from request from commercial 
    parties for digital copies of the  entire GIS database ?   
    (Circle all that apply)
    a.)  no costs     
    b.)  costs of disks, tape, CD-ROM, other media  
    c.)  costs of disseminating (mailing, staff time, etc.)  
    d.)  data maintenance costs (updates)
    e.)  hardware maintenance costs
    f.)  initial database development costs
    g.)  initial hardware &software costs
    h.)  other (please specify)
         _____________________________________________________________
  
11. How do you set a price to respond to a request from a commercial
    party for the  entire digital GIS database?    (Circle one)
    a.)  price based on cost of dissemination and duplication     
    b.)  partial cost recovery value    
    c.)  full cost recovery value of the data   
    d.)  market value
    e.) other (please specify) _______________________________________
  
12. What, approximately, would be the price for a request for the  
    entire GIS database?    $_____________________