Does xGEL maintain a database of soils test data?
Not right now, but part of the xGEL Data Systems business model is to eventually move into the business of management and processing of geotechnical data and of providing fee-based statistical analysis, data mining, mapping etc, of such data. The xGEL Data Systems software is a way of collecting the data and its pricing is set as low as it is to account for the provisions of the xGEL Data Systems Service and Software License Agreements that delineate ownership and use of the data if you opt-in to the National Soils Database Program. Google is free because their business model is to collect the data you input to their system and to data mine the searches and data entries to sell their service to others that partake of their fee-based service offerings. Essentially, if you opt-in to the xGEL National Soils Database program, the input data belongs to xGEL Data Systems, however, after you use xGEL Software to export the data to a gINT or other file, that exported data and the information i
