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I have hourly and daily temperature reports for many stations at http://data.barrycarter.info/

I encourage people to download it, but, at 6.6G, it uses up a lot of bandwidth.

Is there a service that hosts "public interest" data for free?

I know about http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets, but you need an Amazon EC2 account to access that data.

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I did a quick search for google projects that may fit your needs, and I came up with two hits, which I have not tested: Google Fusion Tables and Google Public Data

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I knew about Google Fusion Tables from Google Maps' API, but didn't realize there was a free standalone version. Thanks! – barrycarter Apr 27 '11 at 17:29
Turns out Fusion Tables are limited to 100M/table and 250M/user, and my data's a lot bigger than that. Checking out Google Public Data now. – barrycarter Apr 27 '11 at 22:08
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How about the UCI Machine Learning Repository? Here is their data donation policy.

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You should also take a look at Infochimps. I've never used the site personally, but it's designed for precisely this.

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They don't host data directly, they just link to it. – Indolering Apr 22 at 21:37
@Indolering Do they even do that now? Just looked at their website and it seems like they've moved on to providing analysis tools. Which makes my answer a bad one... – Matt Parker Apr 22 at 21:57
It is has fallen behind other priorities, but it's still a useful data source. – Indolering Apr 26 at 22:17

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