Data and the war on snow: How Ottawa could share plow information — but chooses not to

It snowed a lot in Ottawa this winter.
By mid-March, Ottawa had endured more than 281 centimetres of snow. That, and intermittent thaw/freeze cycles that coated the city in ice, earned it a gold medal for misery from a senior climatologist at Environment Canada.
City officials, including the mayor, expressed surprise and overwhelm, and pleaded for the public’s understanding of its slow snow-clearing and salting operations (Mayor Jim Watson was unavailable for comment on this article). Mean