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Google Public Policy Blog: Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data!

Posted Tue, 09/15/2009 - 03:01 by Sam Rose
url: 

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/09/introducing-dataliberatio...

Many web services make it difficult to leave their services - you have to pay them for exporting your data, or jump through all sorts of technical hoops -- for example, exporting your photos one by one, versus all at once. We believe that users - not products - own their data, and should be able to quickly and easily take that data out of any product without a hassle. We'd rather have loyal users who use Google products because they're innovative - not because they lock users in.

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A2 Parking Python Script

Posted Sun, 05/10/2009 - 05:21 by Sam Rose
url: 

http://monkey.org/~phy/a2parking/a2parking.py

import os, sys, re
import wsgiref.handlers
 
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
 
BASE_URL = "http://a2parking.appspot.com/"
PARKING_API_URL = \
    "http://www.a2dda.org/parking__transportation/available_parking_spots/"
 
PARKING_LOCATIONS_RE = re.compile(">[\s\w\.:]+</td>[\r\n\s]*<td>[\s\w\.]+<",
    re.MULTILINE)
 
def xml_response(handler, page, templatevalues=None):
    """
    Renders an XML response using a provided template page and values
    """

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Working openstreetmap Rails Port

Posted Wed, 04/15/2009 - 21:46 by Sam Rose

Got http://openstreetmap.org working locally on my own computer:

This is a really amazing collaborative mapping and GIS web-tool. I am looking at creating lansingwiki.org using, and extending, this.

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Databrowse

Posted Sat, 04/04/2009 - 22:57 by Sam Rose
url: 

http://xca2.com/stuff/aata/browse/

Hello; this is an automatically generated browsing thing that you can use to examine some data supplied by the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority to Ed Vielmetti in compliance with his recent FOIA request (data here).

I took the flat files Ed got, converted them back into a database, and wired this together in an non-billable afternoon. Please enjoy. Most of the stops have a street and/or a cross street; these came from parsing the descriptions and therefore that data is in pretty sorry shape.

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A2DDA Blocks Asterisk Parking Data | VoIP Tech Chat

Posted Sun, 03/15/2009 - 10:19 by Sam Rose
url: 

http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/255/a2dda-blocks-asterisk-parking-data/

thanks to http://delicious.com/Vaguery

The DDA (Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority), funded by tax dollars, “provides a diversity of transportation and parking options to meet downtown’s [Ann Arbor’s] ever-changing needs.” The DDA does not like us making information of parking spaces available to the public via phone. Instead, the DDA wants to control this information. Seriously, they want to control parking space availability information.

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