#civicdata

[vasquezsays]

Forget #TacoTuesday, make it #TableauTuesday. City of LA well represented at the Tableau User Group Meetup. Fun time presenting on #civicdata & #dataviz. Great job by @igotcharts & @pwnerchelsea . Photo cred @mateo_remi213 & huge thanks to venue sponsor @indiedesk (at Indie Desk)

[orienteeringlouisville-blog]

#cherokeepark #orienteeringlouisville #orientering #orienteeringmaps #civicdata #lidar #lidarky #slopeimage #mappinglouisville (at Cherokee Park)

[digitalmundane-blog]

Now, in 2013, it seems obvious that transit agencies would publish schedule, route, and real-time data in a machine-readable format for developers to build apps with. But back in 2008 and 2009, it was actually a huge struggle. There were two prevailing forces: 1) agencies not wanting to publish data at all, and going after developers who were scraping/using it anyway and 2) very slow-moving internal discussions around the development of an industry-led standard.

Those two forces were enough to basically keep the open transit data movement grounded. A little-known fact outside the civic data world is that what made open transit data work was an outside force: Google.