World government data: try our new, improved search of the world's best statistics

UPDATE, 20 JULY: Search now includes new sites: Vancouver , Rhode Island , Utah , District of Columbia , Michigan , plus Warwickshire and Lichfield in the UK. AND we've added the OECD's library of basic country datasets , too How do you navigate around the huge amounts of data now being released by the world's governments? How do you compare crime in one part of the world to crime in another? Well, this is the place. We have created the ultimate gateway to world government data. At World Government Data our busy team of developers has added lots of new data to the site, including for the first time: • London • San Francisco • California • Toronto And that's in addition to data from the UK , USA , Australia and New Zealand . The site is pretty simple to use and allows you to help us find the best datasets by ranking them, collect similar datasets together from around the world and browse all datasets by each country, city or state. There's an API too to enable developers to build applications around the data - you can read more about how to use that here . So, take a look, see what you can discover - and let us know which datasets change your view of the world. World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter