At the end of January, London will be launching an Online Datastore (similar to the app store for San Francisco, and NYC’s Data Mine). The site has been created by the Greater London Authority in an effort to make London’s data free to everyone that wants it. The information will include crime rates, abandoned vehicles, house prices, road accidents, flu rates and many other metrics. London’s Major Boris Johnson has openly invited and encouraged technical talents to transform the raw data into Facebook apps, websites or mobile products:
“Data belongs to the people – particularly that held by the public sector – and getting hold of it should not involve a complex routine of jumping through a series of ever decreasing hoops,”
As of now, the store has a website that promises a better interface by the time the official launch takes place on January 29th.
[via:BBC]
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