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Paris is a city of many things, things like great wine, sweet romance,
and towers that looked much bigger in pictures. Now it's also a city
of open data. ParisData has launched, home to the "open data policy of
the City of Paris." Here you'll find reams and reams of bits and bytes
from the city's various municipal organizations, all released in the
"spirit of transparency and open innovation." All is licensed ODbL,
which is free to share and adapt so long as it stays open and stays
attributed. What sort of data is there? Not an awful lot at this
point, if we're honest, a few random lists of names and some other
files, all quite naturally in French. But, we did find an interesting
map listing locations of public parks and sidewalks, which René-
Luc D'Hont used to create the mash-up above. We don't really
understand all of it, but we're thinking the dark green dots are cafes
and the lighter green bits no-smoking areas.
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