Love it…

New York Times article about how more and more cities are releasing data they have been collecting for years about all kinds of stuff.  They’ve taken the cue from the federal government, where more and more data is being released on data.gov under the new administration.

I know in Boston they have released real-time bus location info on some selected bus routes (finally!) for developers. Hopefully Boston starts releasing a bunch of other relevant and cool data.

I think government can be held a lot more accountable when all the data is out there for the public to use – and maybe ordinary people can help out our city (for free) by developing useful applications and ideas that our busy public servants haven’t thought of before!