Opening Up Toronto’s Data
2009-05-05 – 11:22A month ago, Mayor David Miller announced Toronto’s plan to open up its data to its citizens (and the rest of the world). Over on his blog, David Crow is now musing about ways to inspire the community to build applications, services, and business on top of that data. My plan is to run my consulting course in the fall term (September to December), and give the grad and undergrad students who take it credit for leveraging whatever information they can in some useful way. We’ll have a better idea in July or August of exactly what’s going to be available; hope you’ll all chime in with suggestions for things the students could do.
6 Responses to “Opening Up Toronto’s Data”
If you haven’t already, it’s well worth checking out what the mySociety guys (mysociety.org) have built.
By James on May 5, 2009
Finally. Much better than trying to parse those PDFs they’ve been posting.
By j_king on May 6, 2009
Well, it’s not an original idea, but if this initiative includes TTC data, then a point-to-point city transit trip planner would be a real boon to commuters in the city. A good model would be the STM Tous Azimuts: http://www2.stm.info/taz/index.php
By Lee Zamparo on Jul 21, 2009