Personally I prefer http://data.london.gov.uk/datafiles/health/alcohol-indicator... and its amazing <Persons_aged_under_18_years_admitted_to_hospital_with_alcohol_specific_conditions_Crude_Rate_per_100000_population_Numbers_-_2005-2006_to_2007-2008> element.
But, as their title suggests, this is a first step.
I noticed this too. As a Londoner, I am pretty excited by this release of data, but, seriously, could they not use attributes for things like the year?!
Sounds like more of a movie plot threat than anything worth worrying about. If you really want to do that attaching your own GPS device to the bottom of a bus (or just having an observer with a mobile phone) is easy enough as it is.
It's interesting to see the difference in terms of corporate culture. Ken Livingstone saw himself as hugely important, he would fly his entourage (always first class) to Latin America and sign "treaties" with foreign governments when he should have been, I dunno, running London like he was elected to do. He was completely out of touch, like the CEO of a huge company that's lost it's way. Like the Detroit automakers flying a private jet to DC to ask for a bailout from the taxpayer.
Boris doesn't make a fuss, he flies in cattle class, he rides his bike around the city (and around city hall!) and always seems to be in a good mood, and he gets stuff done at an incredible rate, precisely because he's not spending all his time making sure everyone knows how important he is. He's the startup mayor.
I did expect him to do a decent job, precisely because everyone was expecting him to be useless, and I've come to realise that the world tends to mess you about that way. Although I'm not a London resident, so I didn't get to vote on him, nor am I (directly) affected by things he does.
Too bad they're not so open at the Royal Mail. Regardless of the wikileaks.org publishing of the data, their charging money for a canonical table of postal code data is shameful at best.
Embedding the year into the element name, useful that.