City of Vancouver Embraces Open Data, Standards and Source

Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software when replacing existing applications.

“So it’s great,” said Andrea Reimer, the city councillor who proposed the motion that passed Thursday afternoon. “The local online community was all very, very happy, and now we just have to look forward on implementation and figuring sort of the order with which we do that.”