The New Zealand Government has agreed to formally investigate why taxpayer funded weather data is currently being blocked for open use – and what data could be freed up in the future.
It’s long overdue, writes Philip Duncan in the headline story today in The Spinoff – an independent media website.
“it’s either fight to free up public weather data, or walk away from WeatherWatch.co.nz”.
Click here to read the full story covering what WeatherWatch.co.nz has struggled with against two aggressive Government agencies and the grossly unfair marketplace we continue to operate in.
– The Spinoff
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Derek on 13/06/2016 10:58pm
Excellent article Phil, sincerely hope it all comes to a good result. Enough of this corparate bullying from these two outfits. We cured telecom, now Spark, which has had good results.
My 100% support is with you as is the force..
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