The New York Times provides an overview of the latest efforts to make government data available to developers, highlighting activities in San Francisco (CA): “It’s going to change the way elected officials and civil servants deliver programs, services and promises,” San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom told The Times. And what about transit data?
Even data about mundane things like public transit and traffic can improve people’s lives when it is packaged and customized in an accessible way — a situation that governments themselves may not be equipped to realize.
Link to full story in The New York Times.
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