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For the vast majority of non-technical (or even highly technical in some area other than software development) users, The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planni

For the vast majority of non-technical (or even highly technical in some area other than software development) users, The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has a site called MetroPulse, which offers a large selection of open data browsable through a (sometimes) friendly GUI. It's more demographically and statistically focused (though there is a map view), but it's a much more generally accessible platform than GitHub.

polemic 14y ago
That's good to hear, but it raises the question: why doesn't the City use GitHub to host code and tools to extract data from MetroPulse? Now you've got a situation where there are two versions of the data.. which is the most up to date or authoritative? It is good to see public entities picking GitHub as a collaboration tool though.
thefuturewasnow 14y ago
metropulse explainer here: http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=b4a94bac-0002-4907-b7fd-688ec2ea6d8f&groupId=20583 http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/c/document_library/get_file?uui...