Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been handed a job in the United Kingdom to make public data truly public: by putting it in the Internet. This move is similar to the US government’s decision last December 8 to make “high value, machine readable datasets” generated by the federal government available to the general public. Data catalogs, geographical data and the tools to read it are downloadable in their respective sites with free access for private or commercial reuse.