[CivicAccess-discuss] So just what kinda data do you want?

[Hugh McGuire]

change.gov goes creative commons.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/changegov_set_free.html

public domain would be better.


On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> Cool!
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Daniel Haran  
> <chebuctonian at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I'd like right now:
>
> Census data
> Transit schedules and stops
> Street features (speed limits, one-ways, stop signs, # of lanes, bike
> lanes, speed bumps, etc)
> Accident data: times, locations and modes of transport involved
> Sewage and storm water drains capacity
> Fine-grained digital elevation models
>
> There are various ways to recombine all this data :)
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault
> <tlauriau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am reading a series of honking data intensive reports on health,
> > socio-economic determinants of health, loaded with indicators,  
> indexes,
> > combining socio data, self reported health data, and  
> hospitilization rates
> > and so on all in maps etc..  I love this stuff.  As I was reading  
> I was
> > wondering if other civiaccessers were also interested in that kind  
> of data?
> > Then I got to wondering what kind of data civicaccers might  
> actually want?
> > So here goes:
> >
> > If all the data vaults were unlocked and you were allowed to dig  
> through the
> > treasure chest of discovery metadata and click the download button  
> to
> > whatever datasets you wanted for free with unlimited use and no
> > restrictions, what would you actually select?
> >
> > and just for the heck of it
> >
> > What would you do with them?
> >
> > Cheers
> > tracey
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tracey P. Lauriault
> > 613-234-2805
> > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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