After reading Pia’s post about opening up government data I went back to a post I made the day the NSW Government announced that it was opening up government data. That was the 4^th September. We were promised that a trial feed was being tested and a full feed would be opened on 21^st Septemer. It’s now 15^th October (nearly a month after the feed should have started) and the one government dataset covering NSW comes  from the Commonwealth Government.

Where’s the data Nathan?

Let’s be honest. The Commonwealth Government has started to open access to data. So have other states. The NSW Government has simply extended it’s policy of making grand announcements with no intention of following through. If there really is data available then put it in your data catalogue so we can find it!?!? I guess they’ll re-announce this every 12 months in between announcing yet another rail line that won’t be built.