Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:11:33 GMT

We are not alone on public data.

I have lamented before the apparent lack of publicly released data in Australia for use in, say, Google Transit and similar services. Well, it turns out we are not alone. In Washington DC, talks have broken down between Google and the authorities. So the public data will not be so public. It seems, as usual, that the government wants some cut of the pie. By why negotiate? Why not simply say, if you want this data, it costs $x?

[CoreEcon]