I've just started out at TFL and the goal for open data is far from being cracked down upon, in fact it seems they are trying to make more available, give me a shout if there are any particular problems you've experienced and I'm sure I can try and help out.
Well the service that people have in spy movies where they can instantly access an infinitely zoomable 3D cad model of the entire building - that would be nice ;-)
