New mapping tool for reusing European public data

Here is a great example of reusing European public data to make it easier to understand for citizens, journalists and others: a new mapping tool to help people find out how €3.4 billion of European fisheries subsidies is spent. The project highlights how important it is for public bodies to make data legally and technically reusable, so that others can do interesting things with it.

The project also releases all of their cleaned up data under a fully open license, which means that others can continue to do interesting things with it (like connect it with other data sources, produce new visualisations, and so on).

Read full details on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. [10nov10]