Councils refuse to re-use dataDevon county council allows its data to be re-used in any format, but other local authorities are simply failing to follow suit / Thursday July 24 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/24/freeourdata.politics?gusrc=rss&feed=society"If you live in Guildford, Harlow or Leicester, commiserations. Your local authority is among those to admit openly that it has no plans to make data it collects available for use by citizens or businesses. Such reluctance is not unusual. A new survey of 426 county, district and metropolitan borough councils in England and Wales suggests that well over half have not taken the first basic step to freeing their data."