In April, Ordnance Survey (OS) digital maps should be available for free as announced last November by the prime minister who promised that the OS “will open up its data relating to electoral and local […]
I blogged previously about open data access provided by the Cities of Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto. These are all examples where city governments have opened public data to the public. Saturday, April 24th in Ottawa […]
Last May the City of Vancouver passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement. In January the City of Edmonton opened Edmonton’s open data catalogue, […]
The venues, road network, and the torch route for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver starting February 11 and 12 with the Olympic Torch Relay routes are on VanMap. The opening ceremonies are […]
The GDAL/OGR Project has announced the release of GDAL/OGR 1.7.0, which is the first major release since 1.6.0 about a year ago. There’s quite an extensive list of new raster and vector drivers as well […]
The first major release of GeoREST has been announced by Jason Birch and Haris Kurtagic. GeoREST is a new open source RESTful framework that works with existing open source libraries such as MapGuide and FDO […]
In the UK the public is now beginning to be able to access detailed government information at data.gov.uk, which was just launched today by Tim Berners-Lee. Apparently data.gov.uk already contains more than 2,500 sets of […]
I blogged previously about Vancouver’s ground breaking decision to open the city’s data to public access. Vancouver has just launched a new version of the City’s Open Data web site. Compared with the initial launch […]