Imagine the Ottawa River Keeper having access to this type of data! Or for the folks along the St-Laurent Sea Way! How wonderful for citizens to be able to view a 3D model of their rivers and the...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/31/real-time-data-from-the-hudson/
Jon Udell interviews Greg Elin, chief info architect of the Sunlight Foundation, which aims to make the operation of Congress and the U.S. government more transparent and accountable. It’s inte...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/27/udell-greg-elin-of-sunlight-foundation/
Check out the Statistics Canada Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators report. It discusses three main indicators: Air quality indicator tracks Canadians’ exposure to ground-level ozo...
From O’Reilly Radar: Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be… well, public. He has a history of creating public access databases on the net when the provid...
The GeoData Alliance is a nonprofit organization open to all individuals and institutions committed to using geographic information to improve the health of our communities, our economies, and th...
Good news: Elections Ontario makes the postal code/electoral riding data file available: The Postal Codes by Electoral Districts (ED) file provides a link between the six-character postal code an...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/09/free-at-last-ontario-postal-codes/
This CBC.ca video gives a brief on how 2d and 3d street view data are collected. In this case it is the city of Toronto and the data collector is Tele Atlas. The things cartographers do to make m...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/09/tele-atlas-is-mapping-torontos-streets-in-3d/
The Information Machine is a short film written, produced and directed by Charles and Rae Eames for the IBM Pavillion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Animation by John Whitney. Music by Elme...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/06/information-machine-the-1958/
Jon Udell writes about the outside edge of what’s happening on the web (including lawnmowers), but his focus is often as much about how regular, non-digerati people might be helped by new chang...
I have been paying attention to infrastructures lately. More recently, I seemed to be coming across more stories about infrastructural failures, Submarine Cables in Asia, or in the Ring of Fire. ...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/08/03/aging-infrastructure-data/