“What a bright spark can do with open data – and the tools to use it”
This is developing into an interesting story. A brilliant ‘live’ tube map showing trains zipping around the London tube in near real time, was launched a couple of weeks ago. It shows what you can do when you get open access to official data according to an article in the Sunday Observer. It was obviously widely read. I couldn’t get on the site at all, but later learned the API has now been suspended due to overwhelming demand.
The Observer article also introduces an interesting new term “securocrat”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/27/transport-for-london-live-tube-map
