Something I've been continuously impressed with is the incredible amount of highly detailed data the U.S. government collects on just about everything. I don't mean spooky scary intelligence data, but more mundane things like the Census and Geospatial data. If you dig long enough you can find data on almost anything.<p>I think France does something similar, and I've been impressed with the few bits of data that I've seen from the U.K. (but some of it is stuck behind weird trademark laws or something). But I'm largely lost behind language barriers in finding this out for other countries.<p>What other countries do this?
<p><pre><code> The app Project Open Data will be able to:
Read your public information.
Update your user profile.
Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc).
Create and edit gists.</code></pre>
Wow, a tremendous step towards transparency. Wish my country did this, but one can dream...<p>The site is just gorgeous (<a href="http://project-open-data.github.io/" rel="nofollow">http://project-open-data.github.io/</a>). And most important of all, editing the content is really easy (although you need a GitHub account for that). I'll have to check out the GitHub editor they are using.<p>Published law as a living, collaborative document. This is the future!<p>Edit: Hmm, why is it that in my RSS feed the submission link goes to <a href="https://github.com/blog/1499-the-revolution-will-be-forked" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blog/1499-the-revolution-will-be-forked</a> and here it goes to a random page on the open-data site?