It is the New Year and it is time for great food, family, reflection, predictions and top ten lists. Here, I have collected my top ten list of top ten lists. They are divided between reviews of Linux related events from 2009 and predictions for 2010 and beyond. This list of lists was presented at the Kitchener Waterloo Linux User Group at the January 2010 meeting.  read more »

Toronto Wards from the Toronto Open Data Initiative. I've converted the data to kml to display in OpenLayers over OpenStreetMap data.

You agree to be bound by the terms of the Toronto Open Data License.  read more »

Toronto Business Improvement Areas from the Toronto Open Data Initiative. I've converted the data to kml to display in OpenLayers over OpenStreetMap data.

You agree to be bound by the terms of the Toronto Open Data License.  read more »

Toronto Rent Bank Zones from the Toronto Open Data Initiative. I've converted the data to gpx to display in OpenLayers over OpenStreetMap data.

You agree to be bound by the terms of the Toronto Open Data License.  read more »

OSM user Rejo Zenger just made it a lot more fun to put OSM maps in my articles. Have a look at Rejo's method and tools to embed an OSM and display your GPX trackfile. Very nice, Rejo!

Update: correctly reprojected

Talented and generous OpenStreetMap contributor, Emilie Laffray, was able to reproject the Toronto address data for us! You can see that the location of the addresses agree much better with road placement in OpenStreetMap now.

Those interested in considering this reprojected data can find it:  read more »

Here is a look at the newly released Toronto Transit Commission data in the context of OpenStreetMap.

The city of Toronto released a bunch of data last week at the Toronto Innovation Showcase. The data was published under a homegrown open data license as part of the OpenTO initiative. I applaud this move towards openness and this support of open data.  read more »

Mark Kuznicki hosted the Toronto Open Data Lab at the Toronto Innovations Showcase this week. This was the official launch of dataTO.org, Toronto.ca/open and the release of several open data sets.  read more »

Construction of the Doris Avenue Extension is continuing. Small sections of the Doris Avenue extension are open to local traffic as other sections of Kenneth Avenue and Olive avenue have been removed. Most of the new sidewalks are in place.

Some further changes at the intersection of Finch Avenue East and Doris Avenue appear to be in order.  read more »

At first sight, news that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is moving from the Microsoft .Net-based TradElect to the GNU/Linux-based MillenniumIT system, is just another win for free software. But the details provide some fascinating insights into the world of very high performance – and very expensive – enterprise systems.

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