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> You are right, the city believes they have ownership of the data, mainly because they fail to understand that they aren’t showing data in an app, but rather publishing data in an API.

Christian, it's not about the data and has never been. The data is a legal tool they are using.

The municipal administration is trying to save face. It's layers and layers of non-technical bureaucrats who have to justify their salaries.

A few talented software engineers running in circles around some multi-million dollar contract they gave to a large offshored operations with probably close to a hundred individual programmers doesn't look good for them at all.