A few weeks ago, during US Presidents Day, Big Window Labs and Code For America held a Data Camp hackathon. Over the past two years there has been an increasing, and interesting, interaction at the convergence of technologists and government policy. Driven by, and [...]
Continue Reading →I got a bit wrapped up trying to get a side project finished up yesterday, so I’ll just skip to day three of ETech. The morning opening speakers were better that Day Two, although the session thus far have been a bit below Day Two’s. We kicked off the morning with an abbreviated talk [...]
Continue Reading →The folks at Puhpin had a great comment they posted to our last blog entry on “free public data“. I thought there was enough interesting content to expand on the comment thread with another blog post. The Pushpin team did a great job providing far more nuanced thoughts on the issues of “for fee” [...]
Continue Reading →NPR ran a story on Monday’s Morning Edition entitled “Security Officials Seek to Block Some Online Maps”. The story centered around local government officials refusing to release electronic maps of what they call “critical infrastructure,” such as water mains and fire hydrants. Specifically the story of Steven Whitaker’s futile quest to obtain infrastructure data [...]
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