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I’m talking about data.gov.uk and transport open data in today’s Daily Telegraph:

My mother will be pleased.

Update: having read the print version, my edited comments do seem overtly critical. The main thrust of my argument was – there are too many new digital channels for gov agencies to support, and opening up the data is the only way to get relevant information to travellers. The information wants to be free, and people want access to real-time personalised transport information.

While writing and submitting my proposal for this year’s Where2.0 conference, I was struck with nostalgia and decided to root out my favourite talk from 2009. The unassuming Brandon Martin-Anderson came onstage and demoed some incredible visualisations he had produced with Graphserver – ‘Maps in Four Dimensions’, quite astonishing. Just wait for the bit when he flips from 2D to 4D:

A lovely video post from the Digital Urban team, worth it just for the soundtrack alone:

Second Movie of the ‘Growing’ London Underground Network from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Glad to see that not only does the Alma mater have a talented team at CASA, but good musical taste to boot.