"Let’s say your city releases a list of
all trees planted on its public property. It would be a godsend—at least
in theory. You could filter the data into a list of all the fruit and
nut trees in the city, transfer it into an online database, and create a
smartphone app that helps anyone find free food.
Such is promise of “open data”—the massive troves of public
information our governments now post to the net. The hope is that, if
governments share enough of this data with the world at large, hackers
and entrepreneurs will find a way of putting it to good use. But
although so much of this government data is now available, the
revolution hasn’t exactly happened..."
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dat/
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