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

Thu Aug 29 10:10:31 UTC 2013

Brilliant - thanks Ole. Added your example and another good one from
Friedrich - now both in the doc:

http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata

Anyone else have any good examples?

On 28 August 2013 23:33, Ole Palnatoke Andersen <ole at palnatoke.org> wrote:

> In Denmark, the OpenStreetMap crowd has improved the spelling of road
> names: http://www.kl.dk/menu/Fejl-i-1800-vejnavne-id113713/
>
> Regards,
> Ole
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Amazing - thanks Ivan, Ton and Eric. :-)
>>
>> I've put your examples in a Google Doc here:
>> http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata
>>
>> Does anyone else have any other good examples or stories to add? Or have
>> ideas about who else we might ask?
>>
>> Any help in asking around would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Jonathan
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