News Story Cities Release Datasets to Developers

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 12/07/2009 - 20:55

An increasing number of cities in the United States and Canada are releasing data to developers to use in applications.

While regions have released geographic information system (GIS) data for some time, such data required complicated software to use.

Cities are now releasing all kinds of data, some of them as simple as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

In October , San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom required that City departments make all non-confidential datasets under their authority available...

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