History - Open Weather Data and how it became profitable to do so

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

How weather data became open data

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Weather in the private sector is over a $1.5 billion industry, and it's largely because of the government's open weather data. You can find what the weather is just about anywhere with just a few clicks of the mouse. It wasn't always like that though. Clay Johnson, former director of Sunlight Labs, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(&#39;/outgoing/infovegan.com/2010/08/09/how-did-weather-data-get-opened&#39;);" href="http://infovegan.com/2010/08/09/how-did-weather-data-get-opened">describes the history of open weather data, starting with Thomas Jefferson in the late 1700s.

Is it the same story in Canada?
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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