We’ve been covering the topics of open government and open data since nearly the start of The Changelog. More recently, we covered the city of Chicago being on Github and how they open sourced various datasets for civic and commercial usage. Needless to say, the topics open government and open data is something we hackers [...]
Open Data
The City of Chicago is on Github right
Recently the City of Chicago released five datasets under an open source MIT License on GitHub. The datasets released are: Street center lines in Chicago Building footprints in Chicago Bike routes in Chicago Pedway routes in Chicago Bike rack locations in Chicago They had this to say: Anyone can now change the data when new [...]