Government

State Of New York – Open Data.

State Of New York – Open Data.

I don't know if you have been checking data.ny.gov lately, but it now has a lot of good data from state agencies, that you use for various purposes.

This data used to only available via Freedom of Information Law requests. To save state agencies time (and requesters too), the state is now posting frequently FOILed data.

Many people think the FOIL law is mostly used by journalists or interested citizens. But the truth is 99% of FOIL data is actually requests for data collected by state agencies in their ordinary operations and used by citizens, non-profits, and commercial entities to build derived products.