The government has announced unprecedented access to public data in a move that it hopes will boost innovation and improve public services.
Over the next year the government will allow access to large swathes of data, including health data such as the NHS Choices data, public transport data, and Met Office weather service data used for forecasting.
The data will be available through a single access point at data.gov.uk, which will go live in January. There will be over 1,100 datasets available free, from lists of schools to traffic volumes on major roads.
Sit Tim Berners-Lee was commissioned by the government to help develop a single data access point, and the Putting the Frontline First report, released today, reported him predicting a "significant increase" in economic growth if more public data is released.
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