Data.gov - ~400.000 free Geospatial and Raw Datasets

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available at:

http://www.data.gov

Also, the software plattform has been open-sourced on github: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/05/datagov-goes-global

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I'll have to check it out again but when this first came out there were far too many Self-Extracting ZIPs and Excel files for me to make much use of it.

Most datasets that I came across in the "Data and Apps" section (http://www.data.gov/metric) were structured xml or csv files. However I spotted Excel files in the other sections (OpenData, Health, Energy, ...)

to work with big datasets: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

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