> > > 1) There's a big push by some forward thinking individuals in departments >> like DirectGov to free up government datasets. Their intention is to >> stimulate some interesting mashups/applications of governement data to >> encourage other departments to release data. They specifically mentioned >> people using it in cycle planners. >> > > Read their recent answer to the second of the questions MySociety set them > (see http://tinyurl.com/dzbayl) sounds unfortunately like they still might > not have "got it" though - talk of "intelligible form" sounds very much like > make pretty user readable versions available rather than raw data :-(
Never spoken to Matthewman but I do talk to people who work for him. They have *got it* and are working to release raw data. I would imagine there's a lot of data stored as "BS3141592654" which would be pretty unintelligible in raw or user readable verions. ps Enjoy the TfL API >> http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/default.aspx >> > > ...for bonus points, work out what terms and conditions apply to it and > whether we can use any data derived from it ;-) > > Of course the station locations and things are almost certainly > contaminated by the omnipresent OS anyway. Aye, that issue of derived data never goes away does it? Although I heard that the OS are going to make some kind of announcement on April 22nd. Not sure of the content, but some kind of response to the Power of Information Taskforce and Trading Fund shennanigans... Horse, door, bolted etc. As I keep on reminding myself, have a bit of patience. The philosophy of opendata in government didn't even exist a few years ago, there is a lot of cultural change that needs to happen but people are working on it behind the scenes. Its not very rewarding to fight against years of entrenched public sector dogma. -- Christopher Osborne www.cloudsourced.com #geomob - gmdlondon.ning.com www.twitter.com/osbornec www.linkedin.com/in/osbornec
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