Reference entries (22)
- referenceReference: underexploited Canadian open data by industry — highest-leverage starts for KW SMB clients
- referenceReference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source
- referenceReference: open-data ingestion stack for a 1-3 person SMB operation (2026) — under $50/mo realistic
- referenceCarfax: from 10,000 records faxed in 1986 to 35B+ records across 151,000+ sources — sold to S&P Global Mobility 2022
- referenceHelloSafe: "Canada's leading insurance/financial comparison platform" — built on StatCan + OSFI data
- referenceLocal Logic (Montreal): 100B+ data points — "largest location dataset in real estate"
- referenceThe Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science since 2018): field-level overlay on NOAA + NWS + USGS + NRCS + NASA
- referenceFlightAware: FAA + 45-country ANSP feeds + 30,000+ user-hosted ADS-B receivers + Aireon — the crowdsourced moat
- referenceCherre: property knowledge graph powering management of $3.3T AUM globally
- referenceATTOM Data: 500M+ real estate/loan transactions, 2,690+ counties, 20-step Enterprise Data Management Program
- referenceZillow: 110M-home "living database" built on Census/ACS + 3,000 county assessors + USPS + MLS feeds
- referenceMeta v Bright Data (Jan 2024, N.D. Cal.): Facebook/Instagram terms don't bar logged-off scraping of public data
- referencehiQ v LinkedIn (9th Cir. Apr 2022): scraping publicly accessible data likely doesn't violate CFAA — but hiQ still settled for $500K
- referenceInternational open-data licences (2026): UK OGL v3, OECD CC BY 4.0, Eurostat, World Bank
- referenceNOAA/NWS: information on NWS web servers is in the public domain — no attribution required, provided "as is"
- referenceU.S. EIA APIv2: free registered-key access to petroleum/electricity/gas/coal/STEO/AEO data; WPSR releases 10:30 AM ET Wednesdays
- referenceOntario Open Data Catalogue: 2,948 datasets under OGL-Ontario v1.0
- referenceCanada Energy Regulator: pipeline throughput/capacity/tolls + Market Snapshots, all under OGL-Canada
- referenceECCC/MSC Open Data: free anonymous access to weather/climate/water via OGC-compliant GeoMet APIs
- referenceStatistics Canada Open Licence: explicitly permits "use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products"
- referenceOGL-Canada v2.0: worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence for commercial use
- referenceResearch brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15)
