> Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think. Refer (3) in my original top post. This is something they wo

> Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think. Refer (3) in my original top post. This is something they would prove remarkably adept at achieving. > ...but where would they be without that knowledge and experience from NASA? Exactly! A thousand times so! Releasing their knowledge and experience that only a government funded entity could have amassed (c.f. raw data), has sling-shot a private enterprise capable of rapid innovation. This is precisely why I think that releasing the raw data is the most beneficial outcome.