On Oct 10, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Joseph wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had experience conveying to local government all
> the reasons for opening up data. The city where I grew up has a clunky "GIS
> web portal" with which you can only view data. A neighboring city will
> provide data but their data release form includes the following: "The data is
> provided solely for the use of the requesting party and may not be made
> available to anyone else."
>
> I want to put together a succinct and well-documented argument that I can
> send along to a city council member/ mayor/ city manager/ etc.
>
> Anything you're willing to pass along (comments, suggestions, something
> you've written up, research, etc) would be much appreciated.
The cities we work with at Code for America are already pretty much on-board
with open data, but the GIS departments and data owners often have
reservations. They worry about how the inevitable mistakes in the data will be
perceived, about liability, and about a wider community of data users
complaining to them.
Do you have the bandwidth to hold hands a bit, and offer a chance for cities to
accept data changes from the broader community? Many of the OSM-based change
detection projects like OWL and Changewithin might help with this. I've been
working on an update to Changewithin designed to address cities beyond New
York, for example:
https://github.com/migurski/changewithin
Some chit-chat on the subject here:
https://github.com/osmlab/changewithin/pull/14
-mike.
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