The Cake Test

Nanaimo BC is an early adopter in the growing municipal open data movement. Beautiful Nanaimo is the second largest city on Vancouver Island, which should be built on delicious layers of crumb, icing and chocolate but which is instead sedimentary and volcanic rock. Between publishing open data and the bathtub races, there is a lot to love about Nanaimo, BC.  read more »

Every municipality that is releasing open data is doing the right thing, but some are doing a better job of it than others. Municipalities are new to open data, so these teething pains should be no surprise. The wider open data community is obliged to point out where municipalities are falling down but we are also obliged to point out who is opening their data more effectively.  read more »

Produced Works created from ODbL databases carry a requirement for attribution when Published. That is well and good for many wares and for common wares that we are currently creating with OpenStreetMap. When we print a map we can include the ODbL attribution text in the title block. But what about other wares?

Consider the noble cupcake.  read more »