Open Data Has Been a Boon for City Governments

Nextgov: The recent push from cities to release open data is great for residents, but it can be a boon for municipal governments, too. Take the case of billboards in Chicago. Many of the city's commercial real estate owners have skipped the lengthy procedure of obtaining a billboard permit and just put up one anyway. They get away with it because the city only employs a handful of inspectors, making the billboard codes extremely difficult to enforce. As a result, Chicago loses an estimated

Read article