What the Minister said to us about #opendata
Via the good offices of @julianhuppert (Lib Dem MP for Cambridge), today I was able to meet Ed Davey (Minister responsible for #opendata) at Dept. of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) with an Open Rights Group-led delegation of Chris Taggart (@countculture), Harry Metcalf (@harrym) and Jim Killock (@jimkillock). We asked to meet him to put [...]
What it will cost to free the rest of UK government data (spoiler: £0)Following the Government’s Autumn Statement open data measures, nothing has been done to change the trading of core reference data at the heart of the open data releases. It seems, however, that there is a way to release all this data at no additional cost.
Our submission to the Public Data Corporation ConsultationOur response to the Public Data Corporation consultation does a detailed analysis of the impacts of charging; the datasets that still need to be released; regulation and governance; and issues around licensing
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We develop APIs for content providers, most recently for Pearson PLC's Eyewitness London Travel Guide and Longman Dictionary datasets.
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We are a UK public transport data aggregator offering feeds to 3rd party web services and mobile apps. We also run our own travel services including placr.mobi and tube radar.
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We are a partner in the EU-funded MetaPos project which provides a location-based life logging service for people who want to keep track of everywhere they have been, forever.
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