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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

This would have come in handy a few years ago when my laptop was stolen from a parked car in Stanley Park. Rhode Island's Open Data : Yet another site only a programmer could love, RI.gov's data library is as deep and wide as Newport Harbor, for which you can download tidal data. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map.

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No, really? A wifi hotspot on a bus??

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. Anyway, as the bus rolls by, I see "PVTA_0333" come up on the MacStumbler, then leave! Yeah, really, really! Maybe faster than we think. {