Top 10 Most Wanted Municipal Datasets Identified at 2014 Open Data Summit

May 28, 2014 By Editor

Early in 2014 in Vancouver, BC, Canada the OpenData summit took place – an event for stakeholders, individuals, government, and businesses that are interested in OpenData and OpenData related matters. During the event the organizers conducted a survey of attendees to determine what are the top opendata sets that people want. The following results were made available via datalibre and share the Top 10 most wanted datasets:

Rezoning permit applications
Land use changes
Financial data (revenue, expenses, liabilities, equity, etc..)
Locations of things (fire hydrants, drinking water fountains, public toilets, bike parking, …)
Transit data
Development permit applications
Crime information
Road construction (511 data)
Political financing
Real time traffic flow data and daily road usage patterns

About the OpenData Summit

Open Data Summit was a one-day event being held in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on February 21, 2014 at the Simon Fraser University Segal Graduate School of Business http://opendatasummit.ca/

About The Open Data Society of BC

This is a collaborative effort by a group of B.C. citizens. We want to help all of us to have better access to information, so that we understand our government better. To answer questions such as how government spends our money, and what data is used to make decisions on our behalf.

We believe that open data helps to promote innovation, because citizens can use government datasets to build applications, ask better questions, and provide alternative answers and solutions

Source: datalibre

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About Editor

Glenn is a geographer and a GIS professional with over 20 years experience in the industry. He's the co-founder of GISuser and several other technology web publications.