The Guardian has done some really interesting data democratization, also note the UK Government, the Ordinance Survey in particular, has the most restrictive licensing policies and the strictest cost recovery policies. hmmm! The UK is the worst so openstreetmap and UK Guardian open data practices were created, and the US has the least restrictive with free data and lots of visualization innovation, and Canada, we are in between, and well, ...
DataBlog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablogDataStore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store
Interactive Guides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/interactiveUS Data
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/page/2009/jan/14/1
How to Use the Data
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/10/how-to-export-dataOpen Platform
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform
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