Tipping Point

摘要

It's time to start benefiting from the open data policy that has become institutionalised over the past decade or so. When laying down rules - such as the INSPIRE Directive in Europe - forcing tax-funded institutes and organisations to open up and share the geospatial data they have gathered, one intention of the policymakers was to stimulate commercial growth (in addition to more ideological reasons in line with the belief that 'data paid for by taxpayers should be freely available to taxpayers').