On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/02/2010, at 10:09 AM, Ian Turton wrote: >> >> apparently you can build an open data site and users will not come! > > The great thing about obvious truths is that you can repeat them as often as > you like and people will still have to learn them the hard way. >
This is a brilliant post Nat. Thanks for sharing your insight. I do want to add a caveat to this -- I hope this post is not taken as ammo for *not* working toward open data. Nat's insights were achieved *after* going through the exercise of opening data. That the results were not necessarily as exhilarating as expected is not an argument for closing up -- I am pretty certain that Nat didn't expect his essay to be used as such, but I want to lay this out in the open for anyone itching to do so. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
