What happened to the tiled DXF files from the DVDs?
When Summit County GIS began distributing data on DVD, GIS data formats were just beginning to be incorporated into “mainstream” software products, such as CAD, and computer hardware requirements for working with large datasets were steep. As a courtesy to engineering and architectural firms, parcel and contour data were broken up into small tiled files in a native CAD format (DXF). This conversion and tiling took up the majority of the time required to publish a DVD. Today, adequate hardware for working with county-wide datasets is relatively inexpensive, and most modern CAD software will read GIS formats natively, so the tiled DXF versions of the datasets have been dropped.
