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many government data daily and is sealed, but the benefits of sharing that are potentially huge

bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of boredom. Here is an example. Data are the fabric of the modern world: like walking on the sidewalks, so that traces the routes through the data, and build knowledge products and beyond. The government has a lot of data already collected, as he needed to run the country properly: simple things like maps, postal codes, land ownership, the employment data, playback time without end, and so on

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currently a struggle is going on in Whitehall, with two factions within the government: one group believes that we should give this information for free, as a matter of principle, as happens with good things, and the other thinks it is necessary to restrict access, and sell it. A consultation is underway. Despite the introduction Ministerial positive, all three options proposed for the publication of data is stupidly restrictive. Here's why it's a problem.

things stand, government data more accidents daily with such force that the nerds are not permitted to be reused. You can have a map of who owns what in your city on the screen, one click. You can discover what the company of someone sitting on the tables, and a map of relationships and matches with all other directors in the country. You can download the transcript of court proceedings that affect them. All this is blocked by government policies that restrict the data.

This is particularly evident when looking at how the restrictions beyond the realms of specific data, and the base type, the structural information is necessary as a skeleton for the simple reason, the civic activity everyday. Royal Mail still has all our postal code information, and you can not get the bounds of the house number of each specific department without paying. All the most interesting projects involve data that links a data set with others, and for directions, which often means using postal codes as a structure column (I'm willing to bet that you do not know not your latitude and longitude). This type of reference data is the pavement of the data space, and if you are not allowed to use, the projects will be canceled.
In fact, this economic loss is almost impossible to measure: if one of the projects I have described its trivial to you, remember that this is a frozen field, where innovators have barely had a chance to take your eyes amazing things inch when you pull the individual pieces of information, with large data sets associated with: the meaning emerges, because they produce the facts and figures. If you ever wished you were born in the 19th century, when there were so many obvious inventions and ideas to connect by itself, then I seriously recommend that you become a programmer, because the future will look nerds back in time with the exact same feel. But this leap forward will be a delay tedious if the government does not allow us to use sidewalks.