[open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

[Ton Zijlstra]

There's the 18.000 faulty bus stops in UK geo data and the 20.000 pregnant
men in UK NHS data. Both mentioned in this presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/dirdigeng/20130719-muirfield01 by Andrew Stott.

best,

Ton

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone has any good examples or evidence of how open data (or
> - more generally - publicly released machine readable data) has led to an
> increase in data quality?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
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