The territorial development and spatial planning are activities that have a significant impact on our environment and habitat. It is important that working on the development concepts, programs and settlement plans, and during political decision making progress must be exactly known the demographic, social, economic, environmental parameters. The data in sectors mentioned above are territorial aspects related.
The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a web-based open source data management system for the storage and distribution of data, such as spreadsheets and the contents of databases.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open data and open content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content. The Foundation is an international leader in its field and has extensive experience in building tools and community around open material. Their software development work includes some of the most innovative and widely acclaimed projects in the area. For example, the CKAN project is the world’s leading open source data portal platform.
The opendata.hu is a free and open Hungarian data catalogue. The site was established by volunteers and NGO's with the aim to create the first Hungarian open data databases collection on web page. Not copyrighted, public data or data of common interest can be uploaded freely to the webpage and can be organized. Further the site wants to be a meeting place for citizens, IT professionals, and researchers whom interested about open data in a long-term and where background materials, forums on the subject are available to users.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. Local Knowledge: OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date. Community Driven: OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. Our contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more.
Locating London’s Past is an interactive website which allows users to search the locations of crimes as recorded at the Old Bailey between 1674 and 1913. MOLA provided spatial data, manipulated digital images and related historic maps to the modern landscape, creating a seamless map. The Locating London’s Past website is widely used by historical researchers and won the 2014 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ (BSECS) Prize for Digital Resources.
The Helsinki Region Infoshare Project aims to make regional information from public organisations more easily accessible to the public. The data are free of charge and can be used by businesses, academia and research institutes, governmental institutes or citizens.
London Datastore was one of the first platforms worldwide to make public data open and accessible. Access to public data has created new markets, encouraging the development of products and services for Londoners. The Datastore receives over 30,000 visits a month, with over 450 transport apps alone having been created.
As one of the anchor programs of the GCI, within the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, the GCIF hosts a network of 255 cities across 82 countries committed to building standardized city indicators for performance management including a database of comparable statistics that allow cities to track their effectiveness on everything from planning and economic growth to transportation, safety and education.
The CityService Development Kit (CitySDK) is a system that collects open data of governments, in order to provide their availability uniformly and in real-time. Within this project Waag Society is responsible for the domain Mobility. We will talk to potential data suppliers and application developers to meet the needs of both parties. Combined with questions from various cities in Europe, these needs lead to services that are both generic and dynamic. CitySDK is assisting seven European cities to release their data and offers tools to develop digital services.