Earlier today I learned on twitter that Canada Post, a Federal Crown Corporation in Canada, had filed suit against the owner of geocoder.ca. This company is a small startup that operates a free online geocoding service, presumably as advertisement for services available by the company’s owner Ervin Ruci. Although I was disappointed at the news [...]

The move towards more open data, both in government and business, seems to be gaining steam around the world. As a long-time user of the World Development Indicators (WDI), I was impressed when the World Bank (WB) decided to open up their data repository to the world and started the Apps for Development challenge to [...]