The online tech “magazine” Mashable has highlighted 5 North American examples of cities doing cool things with open data. Featuring Ottawa’s open data app contest with $50k in prizes, Portland, Oregon’s Civic Apps, the data Warehouse in Washington,DC – the amusingly named Big Apps2.0 from New York (see what they did there – Big Apps for the Big Apple?), and Data SF in San Francisco which has already accumulated over 60 apps developed on the city’s open data.

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