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Opening Up Government Data: Give it to Us Raw, Give it to Us Now
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| Last month Rufus Pollock, Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, spoke at
| OpenTech 2009 in a session with Richard Stirling of the Cabinet Office and
| John Sheridan of the Office of Public Sector Information.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/08/19/opening-up-government-data-give-it-to-us-raw-give-it-to-us-now/
Where is the nearest bus stop? UK Department for Transport adds NaPTAN data to
Open Street Map
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| The UKâs Department for Transport (DfT) has recently released data from the
| National Public Transport Access Node (NaPTAN) database to be put on Open
| Street Map (OSM).
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/08/20/where-is-the-nearest-bus-stop-uk-department-for-transport-adds-naptan-data-to-open-street-map/
San Francisco Opens The Cityâs Data
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| In an effort to engage our highly skilled workforce we are launching
| DataSF.org, an initiative designed to increase access to city data.
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| The new web site will provide a clearinghouse of structured, raw and
| machine-readable government data to the public in an easily downloadable
| format. For example, there will be updated crime incident data from the
| police department and restaurant inspection data from the Department of
| Public Health. The initial phase of the web site includes more than 100
| datasets, from a range of city departments, including Police, Public Works,
| and the Municipal Transportation Agency.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/san-francisco-opens-the-city%E2%80%99s-data/
Related:
Shared data feed
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| Richard Stallman views proprietary software, and specifically software
| patents, as deliberate efforts to prevent people from helping each other. ÂIn
| this way people make money providing what someone else would gladly supply
| free. ÂI think both file sharing and free software are evidence that people
| are naturally inclined to share and help, within certain constraints. ÂThe
| sharing communities have arisen within those constraints. ÂIf all this is
| accurate, then file sharing and open source come from a basic part of our
| social nature and are going to be very hard to eradicate - hysterical
| anti-piracy campaigns and patent-supported software behemoths
| notwithstanding.
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http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=368
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