Nice new site from San Francisco making its data available. I particularly liked the clear justification for the site - making their data more available, allowing citizens to build innovative apps using their data, getting feedback on the quality of their data and getting input on what other data citizens would like to see the city making available. Good job, sf!
A new group in NZ called Opengovt.org is making public data sets available free of charge. This article reporting on the initiative raises a couple of interesting questions about the cost associated with making government data more available. When I worked in NZ government I was involved in developing pricing policy for government info. From memory, the policy was that for non-personal government data that had already been collected and used for its original purpose, the price to any ...