There's a bit of a problem out there in "web2.0" land... There's a zillion frameworks being put together - some useful, some not so. Some would be really useful if they were to be populated with a gallon of data from "somewhere". This seems to be the current problem surrounding most of the new sites out n about here at where2.0 and wherecamp.
A real frustration over the lack of shared data from governments as well as other organisations is leading to some ideas being left to not reach their full potential. Thing is - this isn't new is it? When was "raw data" ever at your local library? When could you ever actually get the exact degrees celcius of a river somewhere. Or the exact number of people in an area with a certain illness? Not to say this shouldn't happen but there's a real impatience around some of this movement.
Things take a while. Try out ideas on smaller, accessible data sets (or community driven ones, UGC scientific data would be cool - think for Global Warming monitoring etc) and prove it works, then show governments what they're missing out on.
Some really good examples of SOME local authorities in the US putting out transport info, but this seems to be something that's common sense - nothing major. Probably worth pointint this out though - the politics of politics leaves a load behind. Who in local government knows what API is anyway?
A good chat that didn't go all the way was how we can semantically model geo data for routes other than cars and public transport routes. Seemed to highly cycle-biased (understandable) but touched on some pedestrian issues. Wish there'd been more though. What I do note though is that I'm not sure google give directions of a fastest route in SF when one of the roads might be at a 45 degree angle...
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