Providing citizens and businesses with access to Local Authority data delivers greater value for all citizens. When in re-usable and easily consumed formats data enables the large community of technically adept citizens and businesses to create new tools and visualisations that can extract greater knowledge and understanding from it. This is in alignment with open.gov.uk, championed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
Initiatives like this are designed to show the potential economic and promotional value of government data by making it freely available to the public in formats that allow and encourage the data to be re-used.
The Connected City 